Stars within 10 parsecs (about 33 light-years). This map is based on data from the GAIA…
Category: Earth Sky
Baily’s beads seen during a solar eclipse today in 1836
Baily’s beads are beads of sunlight caused when sunlight shines between mountains and other features on…
The Psyche mission will fly by Mars tomorrow!
This was the Psyche spacecraft’s view of Mars on May 3, 2026. But Mars is about…
Skylab – America’s 1st space station – 53 years later
Skylab, America’s first space station, launched on May 14, 1973. Its highly publicized crash back to…
Will Pluto become a planet again? The ongoing debate
Is Pluto a planet? Scientists and the public have debated this question since its reclassification as…
Brown dwarf population doubles to more than 6,000
Artist’s concept of a brown dwarf, larger than planets such as Jupiter, but not massive enough…
Huge black holes form in mergers, study says
This illustration shows 2 black holes spiraling toward a colossal collision. A new study says mergers…
Nearby super-Earth is super-hot and airless
View larger. | NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft captured this view of Mercury on December 1, 2011. The…
Surprise! Tiny world with an atmosphere in outer solar system
Artist’s illustration of a small world passing front of a background star. When astronomers in Japan…
Over 10,000 new exoplanet candidates revealed!
Artist’s illustration depicting dozens of exoplanets. A new survey of data from NASA’s TESS space telescope…