View larger. | Comet 13P/Olbers makes its closest approach to Earth on July 20, 2024. Astrophotographers…
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Falling Starlink satellites, Falcon 9 failure and grounding
A Starlink satellite launch on a Falcon 9 on July 3, 2024, from Florida. On July…
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS may be disintegrating
Efrain Morales captured this image of Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Puerto Rico on July 8, 2024.…
Do dark matter collisions on Jupiter glow in the infrared?
This image of Jupiter’s atmosphere from the Webb telescope – and its NIRCam camera – shows…
Odd swirls on the moon may be from subsurface magma
View larger/ full image. | Here’s a view from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of one…
Giant stinky exoplanet smells like rotten eggs
Artist’s concept of HD 189733 b. A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University found…
Exoplanets are worlds orbiting other stars
Exoplanets are worlds orbiting distant stars. Astronomer Néstor Espinoza of Space Telescope Science Institute spoke with…
Did a comet burst crash Earth’s climate 12,800 years ago?
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | John Ashley shared this composite image of Comet Pons-Brooks setting…
Artificial star to help probe a range of cosmic mysteries
An artist’s rendering shows the concept behind the Landolt NASA Space Mission. It will create an…
To find water on Mars, listen to marsquakes
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an aquifer of liquid water on Mars, deep below the…