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Data visualization of the sun as seen from Apollo 16’s lunar landing site. A new experiment, using moon dust collected on the Apollo 17 mission, has found evidence that the

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View larger. | The Curiosity rover took this image of the drill site location Ubajara in Gale crater on April 30, 2023. This is where the rover found some of

An artist’s concept animation of what it is like in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. Ammonia-water mushballs could be raining out of violent thunderstorms, just like hailstorms on Earth. Via

Watch EarthSky’s founder Deborah Byrd interview Marc Hon of MIT, the lead author of the new study. Astronomers have discovered a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail. The

If we could see our home galaxy the Milky Way as it was in the early universe, what would it have looked like? A new study said it would look

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Up and away! Greg Diesel Walck in Ormond Beach, Florida, captured this photo of the launch of the Lucy spacecraft on October 16, 2021.

View larger. | Artist’s concept of K2-18b as a Hycean world with a global ocean and hydrogen atmosphere. Could there be life on K2-18b? The new results from the Webb

Our planet, solar system and even the Milky Way galaxy are spinning. But is our entire universe spinning, too? If so, it could help explain a puzzle concerning the expansion

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Doug Ingram from Bodalla, Australia, captured this fireball on September 1, 2024. Studies of meteorites that have landed on Earth show most are not