Artist’s concept of the strange star Gamma Cassiopeiae (aka gamma-Cas) and its small-but-dense white dwarf companion.…
Category: Earth Sky
A flurry of fireballs! Is there a reason for the uptick?
A driver captured this video with their dashcam as a fireball entered the atmosphere over Texas…
Astronomers spot 2 planets forming around young star
This composite image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows 2 planets forming in the disk…
Moons of rogue planets habitable for billions of years?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an Earth-like exomoon orbiting a rogue Saturn-like exoplanet. A new…
Life’s genetic code just discovered in an asteroid sample
This is a sample of the asteroid Ryugu. The Japanese mission Hayabusa2 brought the sample back…
NASA’s new exoplanet mission shows 1st images to the public
View larger/full image. | This is the first light image from the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat…
More moons for Jupiter and Saturn! New totals here
Saturn now officially has 285 moons! This animation, from Tony Dunn at Orbitsimulator.com, shows some of…
New kind of searing, molten super-Earth exoplanet revealed
View larger. | An artist’s concept of the star L 98-59 and its 3 exoplanets. At…
A comet breaks apart, and Hubble sees it happen
A comet breaks apart in this series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The comet…
What makes a halo around the sun or moon?
We tell you all you need to know about halos in our YouTube video here. Don’t…