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Astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, of The Virtual Telescope Project, photographed the full moon from Rome, Italy on Jan. 1, 2018.

How to see the 'Super Pink Moon' online in live webcasts today

By Hanneke Weitering

A "Super Pink Moon" will rise into the evening sky today (April 7), and you can watch it online with webcasts from The Virtual Telescope Project and Slooh.

An artist's depiction of a quasar.

Event Horizon Telescope spots weird black-hole jet mystery inside quasar

By Meghan Bartels

At the same time the Event Horizon Telescope was gathering data to create the first-ever image of a black hole, it was also observing an even stranger object.

An artist's depiction of the BepiColombo spacecraft flying past Earth.

A spacecraft headed to Mercury will observe the moon this week during an Earth flyby

By Meghan Bartels

The moon will stun skywatchers this evening (April 7) with the biggest full moon of the year, but later this week humans will catch a very different view of our companion, in infrared light.

Astronomer Margaret Burbidge in 1973.

Trailblazing astronomer Margaret Burbidge, who helped reveal what happens inside stars, dies at 100

By Meghan Bartels

Margaret Burbidge, an astronomer who made vital contributions to our understanding of what happens inside stars and who worked on instruments that flew on the Hubble Space Telescope, has died at 100.

Uranus is uniquely tipped over among the planets in our solar system. Uranus' moons and rings are also orientated this way, suggesting they formed during a cataclysmic impact which tipped it over early in its history.

What smacked Uranus on its side? Something icy and as massive as Earth, scientists say.

By Mike Wall

Astronomers have worked out details of the giant impact that knocked Uranus so famously askew.

Skywatcher Tim McCord of Entiat, Washington caught this amazing view of the March 19, 2011 full moon - called a supermoon because the moon was at perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit - using a camera-equipped telescope.

April's Super Pink Moon is the biggest full moon of 2020. Here's what to expect.

By Joe Rao

On Tuesday (April 7), the moon will arrive at its closest point to Earth in 2020 a few hours before becoming full. This "supermoon" will be the biggest of the year — but you may not see a difference.

Astrophotographer Chris Schur captured this image of Comet ATLAS from Payson, Arizona, on March 29, 2020. He created this 45-minute exposure using a 10-inch Orion Astrograph and a ST10XME CCD camera.

Bright Comet ATLAS could blaze into view this month

By Joe Rao

Already visible in telescopes and high-power binoculars, the comet may be bright enough to see with the naked eye by the end of April.

An image taken in March by ESA's Mars Express orbiter shows Jupiter and Saturn moving across the Martian sky.

This is what Jupiter and Saturn look like from Mars

By Meghan Bartels

If you've caught a splendid look at Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the past few weeks, get ready for a major perspective shift.

Holiday Supermoon

What is a supermoon?

By Elizabeth Howell

Saturn's moons Rhea and Janus tango on opposite sides of the planet's famous ring system in this new color-enhanced image from NASA's Cassini orbiter. Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, is visible in the foreground, while the smaller moon Janus is pictured in the distance across the rings. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill recently processed this 10-year-old view of Saturn and two of its moons using calibrated red, green and blue filtered images captured by the Cassini spacecraft on March 28, 2010.

Pictures from space! Our image of the day

By Space.com Staff

Saturn's moons Rhea and Janus tango on opposite sides of the planet's famous ring system in this new color-enhanced image from NASA's Cassini orbiter.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus shoots plumes of ocean water out into space, making the world a tempting target for the search for life.

Next stop, Enceladus? Scientists make their case for a mission to Saturn's icy moon

By Meghan Bartels

NASA is headed to Saturn's largest moon, Titan — but some scientists hope to convince the agency to send another mission to Titan's neighbor, Enceladus, to look for signs of life.

An artist's depiction of a distorted exoplanet.

Heavy-metal alien planet may be shaped like a football

By Charles Q. Choi

An exoplanet may be shaped like an American football due to the mighty gravitational forces it experiences close to its star, a new study finds.

Denman trough (dark blue strip) sinks some 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) below sea level, and could soon become the burial plot of a massive, dying glacier.

Antarctica's Denman Glacier is sinking into the world's deepest canyon

By Brandon Specktor

Antarctica's Denman Glacier is falling into the world's largest land canyon.

An artist's visualizatoin of the first confirmed double helium-core white dwarf gravitational source.

Astronomers spot never-before-seen gravitational wave source from binary white dwarf stars

By Chelsea Gohd

Astronomers have detected two stellar corpses whirling around each other, and they might be producing gravitational waves.

NASA will again accept applications for new astronauts beginning March 2 through March 31, 2020. The new recruits, members of NASA's 23rd class of astronaut candidates, will train for expeditions to the space station and Artemis flights to the moon.

The top space stories of the week!

By Elizabeth Howell

These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.

Imagery of interstellar Comet Borisov captured by the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that a piece broke off the object’s nucleus between March 23 and March 28, 2020. (The middle photo was taken with a different filter than the two on the sides, explaining its different appearance.)

Interstellar Comet Borisov is no longer in one piece

By Mike Wall

But this doesn't mean the object is breaking apart in a meaningful way.

The crew of Expedition 62 to the International Space Station is pictured inside a SpaceX Dragon resupply craft, on March 9, 2020. They are wearing portable breathing gear while entering the spacecraft just in case there are any particles or irritants in the air that could have come loose while launching to space. (From top to bottom: NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir)

NASA asks its employees for new ideas to combat coronavirus

By Hanneke Weitering

NASA is calling on its workforce to come up with creative ways that the agency can help fight the coronavirus pandemic.

The HAWC gamma-ray observatory detects cosmic rays from its altitude of 13,500 feet in Mexico's Pico de Orizaba National Park. The Sierra Negra volcano looms large in the background.

Constant speed of light: Einstein's theory of special relativity survives a high-energy test

By Mike Wall

Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity has survived one of its stiffest tests yet.

A view of Maunakea in Hawaii, captured in a video published by the community of Maunakea protesters called Pu'uhonua o Pu'uhuluhulu in December 2019.

At Thirty Meter Telescope protest, native Hawaiian elders leave mountain over coronavirus threat

By Doris Elin Urrutia

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, native Hawaiians who oppose construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project on Maunakea in Hawaii have reduced their presence on the mountainside.

An image of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft on April 1, 2020.

The sun may kick off a new solar weather cycle this month

By Meghan Bartels

The sun has been awfully quiet lately, but that could change starting this month, scientists say.