If you want one of the best simple excuses to step outside and look up, tonight is a good one. The new moon falls around March 18–19, 2026 depending on your time zone, and that means the sky will...

Titan should not make sense as an Earth comparison, but it does. Saturn’s largest moon is bitterly cold, wrapped in a thick nitrogen atmosphere, and covered with rivers, lakes and seas made not of water but of liquid methane...

If you want one year to keep an eye on space, 2026 is a strong one. This is not one of those years where the calendar is carried by a single eclipse or one huge launch. 2026 has a...

If you have been waiting for another shot at the northern lights, Thursday night may be worth watching. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for March 19, 2026 (UTC day) because of...

Space headlines love to get weird, but this one is weird for a real reason. Astronomers say they have identified what may be a new class of planet centered on the exoplanet L 98-59 d, and one of the...

When people think about habitable worlds, they usually start with the same assumption: you need a star. That is a reasonable assumption, but it may not be the whole story. New research suggests that moons orbiting rogue planets —...