Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is the brightest northerly star. It ...

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Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

The official marker of the summer season arrives tonight. It's the summer solstice, which has been celebrated for thousands ...

At Mars's current position in its journey around the Sun, a belt of clouds forms around the equator known as the aphelion cloud belt. Curiosity captured this phenomenon from the surface several years ...

A new panorama from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars, rising above a thick ...

The European Space Agency-led spacecraft Solar Orbiter, which carries instruments designed and built at UCL, has captured the first ever images of the Sun’s south pole.

The Sun Belt ranks among college football's most wide-open conferences for the 2025 season. James Madison is Athlon's preseason pick to win the conference, with Georgia Southern and Old Dominion a ...

Sun Belt Football 2025 Predictions originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Sun Belt ranks among college football's most wide-open conferences for the 2025 season. James Madison is Athlon's ...

They are especially thick when Mars is farthest from the Sun, a period called aphelion. The band of clouds that forms across the planet’s equator at this time of year is called the aphelion cloud belt ...