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Category: Earth Sky
Old Soviet spacecraft to fall to Earth in early May 2025
Artist’s illustration showing a spacecraft reentering Earth’s atmosphere. An old Soviet spacecraft – Kosmos 482 –…
Solar wind might make water on the moon, study says
Data visualization of the sun as seen from Apollo 16’s lunar landing site. A new experiment,…
New discovery of carbonates on Mars could solve big mystery
View larger. | The Curiosity rover took this image of the drill site location Ubajara in…
It’s the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 year anniversary!
Watch this video sharing some of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest hits over 35 years. Science…
Ammonia-water mushballs raining on Jupiter, says new theory
An artist’s concept animation of what it is like in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. Ammonia-water…
Check out the most distant known spiral galaxy, aka ‘Torch Dragon’
Astronomers just announced the most distant – and therefore youngest – spiral galaxy yet seen in…
Discovery of a disintegrating planet with cometlike tail
Watch EarthSky’s founder Deborah Byrd interview Marc Hon of MIT, the lead author of the new…
How would the Milky Way have looked in the early universe?
If we could see our home galaxy the Milky Way as it was in the early…
Life on K2-18b? Exciting new results met with skepticism
View larger. | Artist’s concept of K2-18b as a Hycean world with a global ocean and…