An extensive set of tables with the latest characteristics of the planets, their moon and ring systems, comets, asteroids, meteorites, and interplanetary space missions complete the text. New to this ...

Tengrinews.kz - For years, scientists have observed intriguing "patterns" on Venus known as tesserae, unique features found ...

These are the asteroids. If the orbits of the debris are farther away ... Saturn is visible in the southern evening sky and is approaching the time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from Earth.

Let us talk about celestial navigation lessons for combat pilots and the first cosmonauts, interactive exhibits, a film ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life.

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The Hera spacecraft, speeding on to an asteroid, took a look back at Earth's moon — and in a new animation, you can see our neighbor shrinking as Hera flies away. Hera's images of the Earth (visible ...

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

As for the two other asteroids that were been detected within hours of impacting Earth in 2024, the first is known as 2024 BX1. It measured around 3.3 feet wide (1 meter) and burned up harmlessly ...

“Among the finds are beautiful necklaces, bracelets, armlets, scarab rings and girdles made of amethyst, carnelian, garnet, blue-green glazed faience and feldspar.” The team found the remains ...