An illustration of the 2-part Proba-3 spacecraft, set to launch on December 4, 2024. The pair…
Category: Earth Sky
Oceans on Venus never existed, new study suggests
View larger. | Artist’s concept of what Venus might have looked like with oceans billions of…
NASA testing underwater robots to explore ocean worlds
Underwater robots like these – pictured during a pool test at Caltech in September 2024 –…
Do magnetic tornadoes drive dark ovals on Jupiter?
This is Jupiter in ultraviolet light. This image takes what we normally see in optical light…
Are Uranus and Neptune hiding oceans of water?
Here’s a cutaway view of what an icy giant, such as Uranus and Neptune, might look…
Comets are icy balls of gas, dust and rock
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Makrem Larnaout in Tunisia captured Comet A3 on October 15,…
Mysterious ‘UFO galaxies’ are big, red and really dusty
View larger. | Example of a red “UFO galaxy,” upper right, imaged by the Webb Space…
The Sombrero Galaxy as you’ve never seen it before
The Webb Space Telescope took this new image of the Sombrero galaxy (M104), which ESA and…
Mars rover Curiosity heads for intriguing ‘spiderwebs’
View larger. | NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a network of spiderweb-like ridges…
The Milky Way isn’t the only galaxy: 100th anniversary
Edwin Hubble’s work showed that the great spiral nebula in the constellation Andromeda (pictured) was a…