EarthSky

View larger. | The Perseverance rover captured this view as it ascended up the to the rim of Jezero Crater on December 5, 2024. Now the rover has found rubies

Artist’s concept of the strange star Gamma Cassiopeiae (aka gamma-Cas) and its small-but-dense white dwarf companion. New data from X-ray space telescope XRISM shows a white dwarf consuming the disk

A driver captured this video with their dashcam as a fireball entered the atmosphere over Texas on March 21, 2026. Later, it was learned, the incident dropped a rock on

This composite image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows 2 planets forming in the disk of dust around the young star WISPIT 2. Astronomers discovered the outermost planet, WISPIT

View larger. | Artist’s concept of an Earth-like exomoon orbiting a rogue Saturn-like exoplanet. A new study led by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany looked at moons of

This is a sample of the asteroid Ryugu. The Japanese mission Hayabusa2 brought it back to Earth in 2020. A new study found all 5 fundamental units of life’s genetic

View larger/full image. | This is the first light image from the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS). It shows the star HD 71262 and other stars in near-ultraviolet light. NASA’s

Saturn now officially has 285 moons! This animation, from Tony Dunn at Orbitsimulator.com, shows some of the previously known moons in white and newly discovered moons in red, as they

View larger. | An artist’s concept of the star L 98-59 and its 3 exoplanets. At front is a cutaway view of the molten super-Earth exoplanet L 98-59 d. A