Visible planets and night sky guide for September 2024. Neptune at opposition this weekend. Catch up with pics and video from Tuesday's partial lunar eclipse.
The year's fastest sunsets are at the equinoxes, and the slowest are at the solstices. We're talking about how long it takes the sun to sink below the horizon.
The Super Harvest Moon on September 17, 2024, was briefly darkened by Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse. Check out some great photos of the event here!
Want to do some cloudspotting on Mars? Researchers in Germany have created the new Cloud Atlas of Mars, with 20 years of images from the Mars Express orbiter.
New DNA studies of a Neanderthal from France support a theory that Neanderthals became extinct because their populations were isolated, leading to inbreeding.