Maybe you didn't realize Venus can appear as a crescent, much less in rainbow colors? These effects happen when Venus draws near its time of passing between us and the sun, which it will on June 3.

A new study has offered the clearest indication yet of how insects all over the world are faring. The researchers studied data on the numbers and total weight of insects and arachnids (spiders and mites) sampled in 41 countries on five continents.

A small asteroid, 2020 HS7, passed at nearly the distance of geosynchronous satellites.

Earth and Mars both are known to have swirling dust devils moving along their surfaces. Saturn's large moon Titan might have them, too, according to a new study. If so, NASA's planned Dragonfly mission will be able to find them.

A cloudy sky last night prevented the online viewing of large, close-passing asteroid 1998 OR2. The Virtual Telescope Project will be trying again today to show you the asteroid, which passed us earlier today.

Tonight - April 30, 2020 - enjoy the second of two April first quarter moons, as it lights up Cancer the Crab, one of the faintest constellations of the zodiac.

For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Every time the virus copies itself it makes mistakes, creating a trail that researchers can use to build a family tree with information about where it's traveled, and when.

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS).

In the first discovery of its kind, researchers in France have found 19 asteroids in our solar system - between the planets Jupiter and Neptune - that they say are likely of interstellar origin.