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Category: Earth Sky
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…
‘Completely bonkers’ collision of 2 exoplanets observed
Artist’s concept of a collision of 2 exoplanets. Light from the collision in a star system…
Will this new telescope find them?
View larger. | Artist’s illustration of a new telescope conceived for seeking other Earths. It would…
Our sun might be a migrant from the inner Milky Way
A new study suggests our sun might be a migrant from a more central region of…
Surprise! Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS bursting with alcohol
Artist’s concept of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS passing near our sun, with the sun illuminating one side…
Why are the Voyager spacecraft getting closer to Earth now?
View larger. | Both Voyager spacecraft are rushing away from Earth and into interstellar space. Yet…