Artist’s illustration of the Rubin Observatory scanning the night sky for white dwarf supernovae. These are…
Category: Earth Sky
Juno spots most extreme volcanic activity on Io to date
This image, taken by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has non-zero odds of hitting Earth
Artist’s illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. The Catalina Sky Survey discovered an asteroid on December…
A super-Venus exoplanet (with a watery name)
View larger. | Artist’s concept of the exoplanet – a world orbiting a distant star –…
New images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars
Here’s one of the newly imaged exocomet belts, around the star HD216956. The new study found…
Marsquakes might explain Mars’ north-south hemisphere differences
A map showing the stark difference between Mars’ southern highlands, in yellows and oranges, and northern…
Extreme winds on exoplanet reach 20,000 mph
Astronomers found extreme winds on exoplanet WASP-127b reach 20,000 mph (32,000 km/hr). EarthSky’s Will Triggs explains…
Lakes on Mars had ripples! They must have been ice-free
View larger. | Artist’s illustration of an ancient lake in Gale crater on Mars. NASA’s Curiosity…
Pandora exoplanet telescope to launch in late 2025
View larger. | Artist’s illustration of the Pandora exoplanet explorer, a new kind of space telescope.…
Andromeda galaxy: Hubble’s largest photomosaic yet
View larger. | This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations.…