Moon to sweep by Jupiter July 12 to 14 | EarthSky.org Use the moon to locate the planet Jupiter on July 12, 13 and 14. After these nights, you’ll recognize […]

NASA shuts off systems on Voyager 2 Launched in 1977, Voyagers 2 is still operating at more than 11 billion miles from home, but mission controllers recently made the call […]

Hubble Discovers Mysterious Black Hole Disc Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material encircling a supermassive black hole at the heart of […]

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Over 4000 planets are now known to exist outside our Solar System. Known as exoplanets, this milestone was passed last month, as recorded by NASA’s Exoplanet Archive. The featured video […]

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Media Invited to Preview Study of Fires’ Impact on US Air Quality Media are invited to a behind-the-scenes tour of a joint field campaign led by NASA and the National […]

Media Invited to Preview Study of Fires’ Impact on US Air Quality Media are invited to a behind-the-scenes tour of a joint field campaign led by NASA and the National […]

Success with a new theory of gravity | EarthSky.org Supercomputer simulations of galaxies show that Einstein’s general theory of relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity […]

What do birds do during a total solar eclipse? Darkness descends more quickly in a total eclipse than during sunset, but returns just as quickly — and perhaps unexpectedly to […]