Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

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

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...