A herd of African elephants instinctively formed an "alert circle" to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday.

Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...

James Webb Space Telescope Sees Jupiter's Rings, Moons and Auroras Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: NASA, ESA, Jupiter ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...

And such solar wind events are believed to hit Jupiter two to three times per month! Scientists had previously thought that Jupiter's fast rotation would shield it from such effects, keeping ...

The crescent Moon pairs with Jupiter on April 2 and again on April 30. Mars starts the month in the constellation Gemini, the Twins. It shines at magnitude 0.4 on April 1, but still outshines the ...

Venus, Saturn, and Mercury are full of surprises this month, and they have one more awe-striking display in store. Before ...