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Kelly Kizer Whitt
Dark skies of Paranal Observatory in Chile are under threat
ESO's Paranal Observatory, in Chile's Atacama Desert, has some of the world's clearest and darkest skies. But a new construction project now threatens them.
April 9, 2025
Partial solar eclipse pics that you’ll love. See them here!
See some beautiful partial solar eclipse pics from March 29, 2025, thanks to our global EarthSky community! Did you take a pic? Submit it to us!
March 31, 2025
Outstanding Einstein ring revealed in new image
This elliptical galaxy acts as a gravitational lens, warping the light from a distant spiral galaxy and allowing us to see it in the form of an Einstein ring.
March 27, 2025
Farewell to Gaia after 12 successful years
ESA has now switched off the Gaia spacecraft, sending it into retirement on March 27, 2025. Gaia measured some 2 billion Milky Way objects.
March 27, 2025
Most distant known galaxy is mature in a baby universe
Astronomers have discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. So, the stars are surprisingly older than we'd expect for the early universe.
March 20, 2025
A new data release hints dark energy may be weakening
A new data release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument hints that the universe's dark energy is not constant and may be weakening over time.
March 19, 2025
New Euclid images reveal hidden gravitational lenses
New Euclid images dive deep into our universe, unveiling millions of galaxies, along with galactic clusters, quasars and gravitational lenses.
March 19, 2025
Blue Ghost ends its pioneering mission with the sunset
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission has come to a successful end with the setting of the sun on the moon, as it enters 2 weeks of darkness.
March 19, 2025
NOAA expects a tornado outbreak in the Southeast on March 15
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center calls for the possibility of a tornado outbreak in the Deep South today, March 15, 2025. Read more about it here.
March 15, 2025
New Mars and Deimos pics from revealing Hera flyby
Hera is on its way to investigate the aftermath of our collision with an asteroid. But first it flew past Mars. See the new Mars and Deimos pics here.
March 14, 2025
