A new study from Northwestern University shows that solar flares - space weather - might not always be as dangerous for life on exoplanets as typically thought. In fact, it might even help astronomers discover alien life on distant worlds.

Researchers have been busily building a prototype of a 33-pound (15 kg) lunar mini-robot, set to be the key instrument in a future mission aimed at capturing high-definition images of moon pits.

In the year 2021, the moon will swing to its farthest point from Earth on May 11, 2021, and then will come closest to Earth on December 4, 2021.

Lunar months are the time between successive new moons. A lunar month is also called a lunation or a synodic month.

A collection of astronomical photos of 2020 from southern British Columbia, Canada. The music is 'Windswept' by Kevin Macleod.

The Mars Ice Mapper is a proposed Mars satellite being developed by NASA in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency. Its job is to create detailed geographic maps of water ice across the surface of the red planet.

Photographers around the world are sharing their pics of the last full moon of 2020 and this decade, which occurred on December 29 or 30, depending on your location.

The last full moon of 2020 - and the last full moon of the 202nd decade - happens on December 29 or 30, 2020, depending on your time zone.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe unusual weather on the planet Neptune, not observed until now. They saw a large, dark storm on Neptune unexpectedly changing direction, thereby saving itself from looming destruction and possibly producing a smaller companion storm.

The sun entered the constellation Sagittarius on December 18, 2020. It'll cross into the constellation Capricornus on January 19, 2021. Look here for dates of the sun's entry into the zodiacal constellations for 2021.