NASA’s Galileo spacecraft obtained this image of Jupiter’s moon Io on June 28, 1997. Here, an…
Category: Earth Sky
Companion for Betelgeuse update! A new image
Betelgeuse is a famous red supergiant star in the constellation Orion the Hunter. Astronomers had long…
Are we listening for alien intelligence the wrong way?
This is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in the Chilean Andes. Here, it’s…
Asteroid Juno at its best now, around opposition
This chart shows the position of Asteroid 3 Juno – the 3rd asteroid ever to be…
Oldest Mars meteorite reveals Mars lost its water early
View larger. | Closeup of the Teghaza 001 Mars meteorite. A new analysis of this ancient…
Should the far side of the moon be reserved for science?
Should the far side of the moon be reserved for science? Astronomers debated the issue at…
Have we found the first exomoon … around a brown dwarf?
Astronomers have discovered an object orbiting a brown dwarf or “failed star”. Is it the first…
Our galaxy flipped after a collision, say astronomers
Watch this simulation of a galaxy flipped from edge-on to face-on after a collision with a…
1st atmosphere detected on Earth-like, habitable-zone world
Atmosphere detected! For the 1st time, astronomers have detected an atmosphere on a rocky exoplanet in…
Meteorite strike of New Jersey home reveals life clues
View larger. | Meteorite strike of New Jersey home! Here’s the space rock itself. It crashed…