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Visible planets and night sky guide for September 2024. The bright waxing gibbous moon will hang near Saturn in the east after sunset on September 15 and 16.
Extreme heat has hammered the U.S. already this summer. Take a look at a map of the states and read more about the heat on the East and West Coasts.
The International Space Station has been orbiting our planet since 1998. Here's how to spot the ISS soaring overhead in your nighttime sky.
Learn how the ancient Egyptian sky goddess, Nut, is linked to the Milky Way. And read about other myths associated with the goddess Nut.
Your April 8 solar eclipse maps are wrong! The new map shows a narrower path of totality (in some places) than previously calculated.
Enjoy this gallery of deep-sky photos for February 2024 from our EarthSky community. And if you have a great photo to share, send it in. We love to see them!
The Gulf Coast is one of the lightning hot spots in the United States. See where the other active areas are in these new maps.
Cassiopeia the Queen is an easy-to-find constellation. It has the shape of a W or M. Look in the northwest on evenings in late winter and early spring.
Check out the best sky scenes of 2024! A total solar eclipse crosses North America, planets have close pairings, a comet may shine bright and more!
Here's a chart showing a delicate sky trio - as seen from Australia and New Zealand - on the evening of November 15, 2023. Look soon after sunset!
In November, the famous constellation Orion is back in the evening sky! Its most recognizable feature is its belt of 3 medium-bright stars.
NASA has released a new map of ice on Mars as part of the Subsurface Water Ice Mapping project. It shows all the known and suspected areas of underground ice.
Astronomers are using a new word to express their grief over the loss of dark skies: noctalgia. Learn more about sky grief here.
Scientists analyzed the motion of stars to make a new 3D map of giant galaxy M87. This map shows that the huge elliptical galaxy has a potato shape.
A new Mars map mosaic lets scientists and the public alike zoom in on surface features on the red planet. Learn more about this interactive map here.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have compiled a new global map of the known volcanoes on Venus ... All 85,000 of them.
A new study breaks down carbon dioxide emissions by country, revealing a map of which nations contribute the most of the greenhouse-warming gas.
Best of 2023: Find the most magnificent night sky scenes that you won't want to miss, chosen for you by the editors of EarthSky. Planets, eclipses and more!
The top 10 stories of 2022 is a review of what we’ve learned in the past year from our home planet, Earth, out to the vast universe. See the top 10 here.
A new interactive map of the universe lets you scroll from our position in the Milky Way all the way to the edge of the observable universe.