Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in a rare 2025 sky event Viewable with telescopes during pre-dawn hours this summer Next Titan ...

Later this year, the Rubin Observatory will launch its Legacy Survey of Space and Time. This 10-year project aims to scan the ...

June 21, the world experiences summer solstice, the longest day and shortest night of year 2025. According to astronomers, the day will last 13 hours and 41 minutes, while the night will span just 10 ...

Friday is the longest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical summer.

The summer solstice occurs when Earth reaches the point in its orbit where the North Pole is angled closest to the Sun ...

Days will become ´shorter´ after the summer solstice … this means less daylight. If you like the ´longer days,´ then your excitement will diminish every day, little by little. To be exact, you will ...

Phil Plait is a professional astronomer and science communicator in Virginia. His column for Scientific American, The Universe, covers all things space. He writes the Bad Astronomy Newsletter ...

The study focused on two black holes — our galaxy's Sgr A* and M87*, located 55 million light-years away. Both were previously imaged by the global EHT project.

In the newly released picture on its website nasa.gov as Astronomy Picture of the Day on June 17, it asked the question 'Can you find the Rosette Nebula?' The image by Toni Fabiani Méndez featured the ...

Bianco, for example, is the deputy project scientist and interim head of science for the Rubin Observatory. From 2014 through 2021, she chaired the collaboration that deals with “time astronomy,” ...