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This asteroid will pass closer than the moon on Friday
And you can watch the passage of near-Earth asteroid 2018 DV1, live, on March 2.
March 2, 2018
See all 5 bright planets in March
You can't see them simultaneously. But, especially from the Northern Hemisphere, March 2018 is a great month for catching all 5 bright planets either after sunset, or before dawn.
March 2, 2018
See Mars moon Phobos drift in front of Saturn
Expand to full size to see this video from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, which caught a close-up view of the little Mars moon Phobos, moving in front of distant Saturn.
March 1, 2018
5 minutes before sunrise
Photographer Steve Scanlon captured this beautiful color just 5 minutes before sunrise over the Shrewsbury River in Rumson, New Jersey.
March 1, 2018
March 1-2 is 1st full moon this month
The 1st of 2 March 2018 full moons falls on the night of March 1-2. The 2nd March full moon - a Blue Moon - will come on March 31.
March 1, 2018
Astronomers detect earliest hydrogen
They used a radio telescope to peer back to a time only 180 million years after Big Bang - when the 1st stars were turning on - to observe the earliest-yet signals of hydrogen gas.
February 28, 2018
Moon’s water might be widespread
A new study suggests that the moon’s water is widely distributed across its surface, though it’s not necessarily easily accessible.
February 28, 2018
How naked mole rats stay cancer-free
Another piece in the puzzle of how these wrinkled, hairless, buck-toothed creatures live such long and cancer-free lives.
February 28, 2018
The skywatcher
RV Photography said, "After a night of astrophotography, it's nice to just take a seat and enjoy the stars ..."
February 28, 2018
Moon and Regulus on February 28
Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion is considered the most important of the 4 Royal Stars of ancient Persia. See it near tonight's moon.
February 28, 2018
