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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

Strange Tatooine world: A planet in a perpendicular orbit around 2 brown dwarfs. Video via ESO. Science matters. Wonder matters. You matter.Join our 2025 Donation Campaign today. Tatooine exoplanets are

The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud from the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. They are 2 small galaxies orbiting our large, spiral Milky Way galaxy.

View larger. | This artist’s illustration depicts Titan’s organic-rich surface, with a lake near the north pole. Hydrocarbons coat the icy surface, hang in the atmosphere as smog and are

Michael Jaeger and Gerald Rhemann captured this shot of the new Comet SWAN. See it NOW in the morning sky with binoculars. Finder charts and more below. Used with permission.

View larger. | One of the Aguas Zarcas meteorites that landed in Costa Rica in 2019. A new study of these meteorites shows that mudball meteorites are not always as

View larger. | Artist’s concept of what’s thought to be the 1st-ever recorded incident wherein a star swallows its planet. The planet lies in a hot accretion disk surrounding the