View larger. | Artist’s concept of what’s thought to be the 1st-ever recorded incident wherein a…
Category: Earth Sky
Hydrothermal activity on Mars? Rover finds tantalizing new clues
View larger. | NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft took this image of part of Jezero…
Nearby doomed stars spiraling toward a gigantic collision
Astronomers at the University of Warwick in the UK said they’ve identified 2 nearby white dwarf…
Heatwave on Jupiter from strong solar wind amazes scientists
This is an animation of the January 2017 Jupiter heatwave. Scientists used spectroscopic data from the…
Hubble reveals weird Uranus in new 20-year study
View larger. | Various observations of Uranus by the Hubble Space Telescope over the 20-year period…
New Comet SWAN25F! See it in binoculars now
The path of Comet SWAN25F looking east-northeast before sunrise. In early April you can use binoculars…
See one gigantic Mars dust devil eating another
A Mars dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in this short video made…
Surprising galaxy shines through fog of the early universe
This image shows the incredibly distant galaxy JADES GS-z13-1 (the red dot at center). This surprising…
Birthplaces of new planets come in many different sizes
View larger. | These are the 73 protoplanetary disks – or planet-forming disks – that ALMA…
Alien life? Mammoth new telescope could find it in hours
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Currently being constructed in Chile,…