Satellite News

Jupiter and Saturn will shine together in a winter solstice “Great Conjunction” of 2020 in what many are likening to an early “Christmas Star” tonight (Dec. 21) and you can watch it live.

This year, the planets will appear closer to each other than they have in centuries.

An epic nighttime skydive saw Red Bull Air Force’s Amy Chmelecki and teammates don pyrotechnics to highlight – literally – the importance of astronomy and dark skies in a rural region of Texas.

Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky today (Dec. 21) in an event astronomers call the “great conjunction,” and you can watch it online with a host of webcasts.

Here’s a full list of webcasts for the winter solstice “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn on Dec. 21, 2020.

Google treated internet searchers around the world to a pair of animated doodles celebrating the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn and the solstice on Dec. 21.

Astronomers have peered out into the vast expanse and spotted what they think is the farthest (and oldest) galaxy ever observed.

President Trump’s February budget request included a surprise for planetary scientists: a new mission dubbed Mars Ice Mapper, the details of which are still beginning to surface.