Is the moon a star or a planet? The correct answer is "neither," but that's not the consensus reached when the argument comes up in this funny TV clip. During a recent show for the QVC shopping ...

Venus is a prominent fixture in the evening sky, still hanging on at magnitude –4.8 and setting nearly three hours after the Sun. It’s currently located in central Pisces, far outshining any stars in ...

The moon-planet-star trio are among the brightest objects in our solar system, meaning the impending conjunction should be incredibly easy to spot. A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? Current definitions define a star as a body that generates its own energy. While humans have relied on the sun for hundreds of thousands of years, it's only in the last ...

December for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Geminids meteor shower, as Greg Redern highlights in December’s ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. Florida is home to ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...