View larger. | Artist’s depictions of what LHS 1140 b might look like. Earth is on…
Category: Earth Sky
Will the scientific definition of a planet change … again?
Join EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd and astronomer Michael Brown LIVE at 12:15 p.m. CDT (17:15 UTC). Brown…
‘I killed Pluto. Now I’m searching for Planet 9’
Join EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd and astronomer Michael Brown LIVE at 12:15 p.m. CDT (17:15 UTC). Click…
Comet 13P/Olbers will be closest to Earth on July 20
View larger. | Comet 13P/Olbers makes its closest approach to Earth on July 20, 2024. Astrophotographers…
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…