One of the brightest stars in the summer night sky will be occulted (eclipsed) by the moon this weekend in one of 2024’s rarest sky events for the Americas. The 16th brightest star in the night ...

Next week, a rare celestial event will occur as an asteroid blocks the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion. Betelgeuse, usually the 10th-brightest star in the night sky, will ...

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Overnight on Aug. 20-21, the full 'Sturgeon Supermoon' briefly occulted, or passed in front of, Saturn, snuffing the ringed planet's light from the sky. An epic new astrophotography image captures ...

In November, she observed a total lunar eclipse coinciding with Uranus being occulted by the moon in the garden of the residence with her parents. Aiko raised silkworms again this year ...

Jupiter’s three other Galilean moons — Io, Europa, and Ganymede — all transit in front of or become occulted behind the planet on a regular basis. But the tilt of the moons’ orbits and ...

Some 25 million radio signals were detected, but all were eliminated by a clever computer code as terrestrial radio frequency interference. The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 ...