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Great Pacific Garbage Patch now 3 times size of France

In 2015, a mega-expedition - 30 vessels simultaneously - crossed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and collected 1.2 million plastic samples. They say the problem is getting worse.

Eleanor Imster

Deborah Byrd

March 27, 2018

A large swath of Texas is heaving and sinking

The oil-rich Permian Basin is having a resurgence in active drilling. Researchers report that, in one place, the ground has shifted 40 inches (about a meter) over the past two-and-a-half years.

Deborah Byrd

Eleanor Imster

March 27, 2018

Supersonic parachute test off Virginia coast March 27

NASA will provide live coverage of the ASPIRE 2 launch on Tuesday, beginning at 10:15 UTC (6:15 a.m. EDT). Info on how to watch here.

Deborah Byrd

March 26, 2018

Is science broken?

A communications scholar offers an argument that science isn't broken or in crisis and that it's media's job to educate people about how science works.

Deborah Byrd

March 25, 2018

Find Vincent van Gogh’s Big Dipper

Here's an easy astronomy lesson, from a master in the art of loving nature.

Editors of EarthSky

March 23, 2018

How can you know what to believe?

It's not surprising that a new study linking extreme winter weather in the U.S. East with a warmer Arctic has drawn fire from global warming skeptics. Should you believe the study or the skeptics?

Deborah Byrd

Eleanor Imster

March 19, 2018

NOAA’s 2018 US spring weather outlook

NOAA's 3-month outlook predicts that U.S. will see moderate flooding, and warmer-than-normal temperatures.

Eleanor Imster

March 19, 2018

Calling all cloud-gazers! NASA needs your help

Take pictures of clouds to help scientists.

Eleanor Imster

March 15, 2018

Mexico City earthquake was rare ‘bending’ quake

A new study on the 2017 quake that killed 300 in Mexico City finds that both its location and cause were unusual. But seismologists say it could happen again.

EarthSky Voices

March 14, 2018