An astral animated TED-Ed lesson written by Elise Cutts explains how the tides on Earth are impacted both by the sun and the moon.

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that will see Saturn, Venus and ...

China revived two failing satellites using a gravity slingshot from Earth, moon, and sun—marking a game-changing leap in ...

China launched two satellites atop a Yuanzheng-1S mounted on a Long March-2C rocket. While the first and second stages were ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Scientists confirm the Sun's charged particles can create water on the Moon. Learn how solar wind interacts with lunar soil.