Artist’s illustration showing a Starlink satellite orbiting Earth. Image via Wikideas1/ Wikimedia. CC BY 4.0. Starlink…
Category: Earth Sky
Lightning on Jupiter is 100 times more powerful than Earth’s
View larger/full image. | Artist’s illustration of lightning on Jupiter, based on data from the Juno…
Rubies on Mars? Rover finds fluorescent gems for 1st time
View larger. | The Perseverance rover captured this view as it ascended up the to the…
Strange star mystery solved after 50 years
Artist’s concept of the strange star Gamma Cassiopeiae (aka gamma-Cas) and its small-but-dense white dwarf companion.…
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…