What are some skywatching highlights in May 2024? Mars and Saturn tussle with the Moon, Mercury makes a brief a.m. appearance ...

Find out where to see Saturn, Mars, Mercury and Venus this month. The moon passes in front of the star Antares and the Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks.

The month begins with an enchanting alignment on May 3rd, where the crescent Moon, Saturn, and Mars will create a striking scene in ... an event known as an occultation. “Over a couple of hours as the ...

Potential Solvents Identified for Building on Moon and Mars Jan. 11, 2024 — Researchers have taken the first steps toward finding liquid solvents that may someday help extract critical building ...

What do we know about the moon? It is widely accepted that the moon was created when a rock the size of Mars slammed into the earth several billion years ago. The moon is the Earth's only natural ...

Ever since India discovered there might be ice in the moon's south pole craters in 2008, scientists have wanted to know if there is water up there. If there is, missions to Mars become much more ...

When the Chang’e-4 mission landed in the Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, China became the first and only country to land on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away ...

Researchers closely tracked and computationally analyzed moon and asteroid sized objects beyond Neptune ... planets at the edge of the solar system in the Pluto, Mercury and Mars size range. Vera C.

Beijing has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon and made China only the third country to independently put humans in orbit. China aims to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030 and plans ...

The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M. local time from the same location. Wednesday, May 8 Mars reaches perihelion — the closest point to the Sun in its orbit — at 7 A.M. EDT.