Jupiter and its four Galilean moons — (from left to right) Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa — sit near the Moon’s limb in this photoillustration depicting the jovian system’s orientation a few ...

A reader questions the point of having men’s and women’s shirt buttons on different sides. By Vanessa Friedman Why can’t manufacturers of women’s clothing put the shirt buttons on the right side? The ...

Get ready for a celestial double treat. The first full moon of the fall season will reach peak illumination in the night sky this weekend — and sky-gazers will also have a chance to spot Saturn. The ...

Researchers are exploring a theory that the planet “devoured” its moon Angelique Brenes is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2026. Her work has previously appeared on NBC Los Angeles, ...

Venus may be moonless today, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it always was. A new study suggests that if Venus once had a moon, the planet’s unusually slow rotation could have eventually pulled the ...

One of the great mysteries in astronomy has been why Venus has no moon. Now a new theory provides a simple answer: It might have been eaten. Venus has nearly the same mass, size, and structure as ...

Venus is one of only two planets in our solar system that lack a moon. (Mercury is the other.) NASA / JPL-Caltech Earth’s next-door neighbor Venus is often called our twin. The two planets feature ...

Twenty years ago Pluto lost its planethood, and I’m partially to blame. “Blame” is a strange word to use for what seems like a matter of mere semantics; after all, Pluto exists as an intriguing world ...

Parlor Doughnuts is welcoming the harvest season with a new lineup of limited-time flavors inspired by one of the best parts of late summer and early fall: a trip to the local farm stand or farmers ...

Bruce Jakosky, Scott Hubbard and their colleagues have given us a masterclass in pragmatic systems engineering. Their recent SpaceNews editorial titled “Laying the groundwork for the first human ...

We have known for a while that the Milky Way is full of homeless worlds. Rogue planets, free-floating planets—call them what you like—but they are planets formed in orderly systems around ordinary ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Pikes Peak has officially earned a Guinness World Records title for the most people simultaneously dunking doughnuts into coffee, with 285 participants taking part in ...