Solar conjunction for Mars happened yesterday, November 18, 2023. That’s when Mars was most directly behind…
Category: Earth Sky
Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe
Edwin Hubble as a young man. It was then that he said, “If only I could…
The universe is expanding faster than theory predicts
The Webb space telescope’s deep field image shows a universe filled with sparkling galaxies. In modern…
Are 2 huge blobs inside Earth due to an ancient impact?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an ancient collision between a planet-sized body and a planet…
Best places to find ice on Mars revealed in new NASA map
View larger. | This is part of the new map from the Mars Subsurface Water Ice…
Uranus discovered by accident in 1781 by William Herschel
Pale blue Uranus as seen by Voyager 2 in 1986. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft…
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is coated in salts and organics
View larger. | NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Ganymede on June 7, 2021. New…
Seasons of Uranus, a sideways world
NASA released this new Uranus image on April 6, 2023. It’s from the mighty Webb space…
Record-breaking black hole found in the early universe
Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays (in a galaxy dubbed UHZ1)…
And then there were 3!
The first images from the Lucy spacecraft of the asteroid Dinkinesh showed 2 asteroids, but newer…