EarthSky Communications is the winner of two W3 Awards, a competition honoring creative excellence on the web. Read more about the website and awards.

How does the media portray the deep sea, and how does this coincide with what scientists discover about it? Read more about perceptions of the deep sea.

NASA's Molly Brown developed a Famine Early Warning System Network. Brown talks about this life-saving technology in this 8-minute podcast.

BlogBurst, a blog syndication service, has ranked the EarthSky website among its top 100 blogs on the BlogBurst Leaderboard for the second consecutive quarter.

The "faint sun paradox" has to do with the relationship between the sun's size and Earth's climate.

In 2007, a Penn State astronomer led a team that discovered an extrasolar planet around a red giant star. The star is HD 17092, located 300 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Perseus. Earth & Sky interviewed this astronomer.

Queen's Brian May told Earth & Sky, "I think that rock stars could be accused of losing their sense of perspective quite often. And this keeps me with one foot in a different kind of world, where it's necessary to be very humble."

Rock star Brian May is the guitarist for Queen. He's also co-author of a book about the other kind of stars. It's called, "Bang! The Complete History of the Universe."

India is now the world's second-most-populated country, next to China.

Is our universe shaped like a sphere, a saddle, or flat? It depends on how you look at it. That will tell us if the universe is open or closed. Read more here.