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…

Is this a volcanic exoplanet? Hints are in its atmosphere

Artist’s concept of L 98-59 d, a super-Earth world 35 light-years away. Now, new results from…

Are large asteroids hidden in this annual meteor shower?

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Richard Swieca in Ste Agathe des Monts, Quebec, Canada, caught…

First close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way

This is the first close-up picture of a star outside the Milky Way galaxy, WOH G64.…

A runaway star moves fast in an unusual direction

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a cloud in space where new stars are forming –…

More evidence for ancient ocean on Mars from Chinese rover

View larger. | Artist’s concept of an ancient ocean on Mars. A new study of data…