When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

Tengrinews.kz - For years, scientists have observed intriguing "patterns" on Venus known as tesserae, unique features found ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Despite the smokey clouds in the night sky, the iPhone 16 Pro Max’s 48MP main camera delivers an absolute stunning picture.

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to capture unprecedented details of the extensive debris ...