Say good-bye to Eleanor Imster, a fixture at EarthSky since 1995.

Sea turtles are fascinating creatures. Learn some facts about these much loved marine reptiles.

Noctilucent cloud season has returned to Earth’s high latitudes. These "night-shining" clouds are beautiful ... photos here.

World Oceans Day has been celebrated every year on June 8 since 1992. It's a day to raise awareness about how we're connected to the oceans - no matter where we live on Earth - and what we can do to protect ocean habitats.

A large ring or circle of light around the sun or moon is called a 22-degree halo by scientists.

The World Meteorological Organization chooses hurricane names several years in advance. Find hurricane names for 2021 here.

Enjoy a few photos of the May 21, 2021 lunar eclipse from EarthSky friends around the world. Thanks so much to all who shared your photos with us!

Clouds in the sky can sometimes look like ocean waves. These photographic clouds are called Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, and occasionally also go by the name billow clouds or shear-gravity clouds.

If the moon orbited Earth on the same plane that Earth circles the sun, then we'd have a total lunar eclipse at each full moon, and a total solar eclipse at each new moon. But that doesn't happen because the lunar orbit is inclined to Earth's orbit by about 5 degrees.

A podcast featuring Harvard theoretical physicist Avi Loeb, on the subject of whether 'Oumuamua - the strange object that swept through our solar system in 2017 - is an artifact of an alien intelligence.