To celebrate 25 years since the completion of the International Gemini Observatory, students in Chile voted for the Gemini South telescope to image NGC 6302 — a billowing planetary nebula
To celebrate 25 years since the completion of the International Gemini Observatory, students in Chile voted for the Gemini South telescope to image NGC 6302 — a billowing planetary nebula
Don’t miss the final full moon of 2025, when the “Cold Moon” takes to the autumn sky at sunset on Dec. 5. Here’s how to watch the lunar spectacle unfold
Remotely operated vehicle MiniROV in a simulated environment during the training of the Deployable AI developed as part of the Deployable Artificial Intelligence for Exploration and Discovery in the Deep
WASHINGTON — The Missile Defense Agency said its selection of more than 1,000 companies for a new contracting vehicle should not be read as an early indicator of requirements for
The January full moon will occur at 5:03 a.m. EST (1003 GMT) on Jan. 3, when the moon sits opposite the sun and appears completely illuminated from our perspective. This
Every so often, the moon draws closer to Earth and appears larger, brighter, and more powerful in the night sky. These rare events are called supermoons, and each one in
SpaceX just launched a secret payload for the U.S. military. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off into cloudy skies from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (Dec. 9) at
https://earthsky.org/upl/2026/02/giant-galaxy-early-universe_sulzenauer2026-Max-Planck-Inst-for-Radio-Astro.webm Watch a video explaining how giant galaxies in the early universe might have formed. Video via Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. EarthSky’s 2026 lunar calendar shows the moon
Saturn’s rings will appear to have disappeared if you catch a glimpse of the planet through the eyepiece of a telescope on the night of Nov. 23 — but don’t
The next crewed mission to the International Space Station is set to take off from Kazakhstan. The Soyuz MS-28 mission, transporting two cosmonauts from Roscosmos and one astronaut from NASA,






