During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

The article details a significant astronomical event: the transit of Jupiter's moon Io and its shadow across the gas giant's disk, observed overnight from December 27th into December 28th. The ingress ...

On December 25, the Moon will pass 4° north of Saturn at 11 P.M. EST, with both celestial bodies observable in the southwestern sky during the evening. Saturn will present a magnitude of 0.7, ...

The observation period features lunar appulses with Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, complemented by transits of Jupiter's Galilean moons (Io and Europa) and their shadows across the gas giant's disk.

Lovell, the first individual to complete four spaceflights, significantly advanced the Gemini program's objectives through missions like Gemini VII, which established extended duration flight records ...

On December 9th, Neptune will attain its stationary point at 7 P.M. EST, marking the conclusion of its retrograde motion. The ice giant will be situated near Saturn and the Circlet of Pisces in the ...

A grand-design spiral galaxy, named Alaknanda, was discovered forming approximately 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging previous astrophysical models on the timescale required for ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch the classified NROL-77 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on December 9th, completing the NRO's 2025 launch schedule and marking its second mission ...

New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

On December 2, a nearly Full Moon is scheduled to pass 5° north of Uranus within the constellation Taurus at 10 P.M. EST. Concurrently, a lunar occultation of several stars in the Pleiades cluster ...

On December 3, the Moon reaches perigee, its closest orbital point to Earth, followed by a Full Moon (the December Cold Moon) at 6:14 P.M. EST. This event is identified as a Super Moon, concluding a ...

The astronomical community faces a significant and escalating challenge due to the dramatic increase in satellite launches, transitioning from minimal interference by early constellations like Iridium ...