This new visualization depicts astronauts, habitats, rovers, power systems, and cargo operations at NASA’s planned moon…
Category: Earth Sky
Hot Jupiter exoplanet has cloudy mornings and clear evenings
Artist’s concept of WASP-94A b, a hot Jupiter-type exoplanet about 700 light-years away. New observations by…
Searching for Earth-sized exoplanets with the POET mission
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system, including rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e (lower right).…
Ice volcanoes on Ganymede? New promising candidates found
View larger. | Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system. Are there…
Interstellar turbulence in the Milky Way distorts light
Radio light from quasar TXS 2005+403 travels roughly 10 billion light-years to reach Earth. It passes…
Stardust in Antarctica shows Earth crossed a supernova cloud
Stars within 10 parsecs (about 33 light-years). This map is based on data from the GAIA…
Baily’s beads seen during a solar eclipse today in 1836
Baily’s beads are beads of sunlight caused when sunlight shines between mountains and other features on…
The Psyche mission will fly by Mars tomorrow!
This was the Psyche spacecraft’s view of Mars on May 3, 2026. But Mars is about…
Skylab – America’s 1st space station – 53 years later
Skylab, America’s first space station, launched on May 14, 1973. Its highly publicized crash back to…
Will Pluto become a planet again? The ongoing debate
Is Pluto a planet? Scientists and the public have debated this question since its reclassification as…