LIVE on Monday: Super Blue Moon

Join EarthSky team members LIVE beginning at 12:15 p.m. (17:15 UTC) on Monday, August 19, 2024 ... to talk about Monday night's Super Blue Moon.

Anglerfish are our mysterious, deep-sea lifeform of the week

Anglerfish have a lantern on their head that they use to attract prey in the dark deep sea, and a huge mouth full of long teeth. What an amazing monster fish!

A solitary star speeding across the Milky Way

Citizen scientists have discovered a solitary star speeding so fast that it will eventually escape the Milky Way's gravity and shoot into intergalactic space.

‘Continents’ on Venus similar to those of early Earth?

A new study suggests that 'continents' on Venus, vast plateaus known as tesserae, may have formed in a very similar way to early continents on Earth.

Hobbit human ancestors smaller than thought

Ancestors of Homo floresiensis, the "Hobbit" humans, that once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores, were smaller than scientists had previously thought.

Sometimes Island on Lake Travis

This image taken by our friends at Float On –Lake Travis Boat Rentals, the best place to go for lake...

See it! This week’s auroras and Perseids!

The beloved Perseid meteor shower peaked just as auroras were gracing our skies. Wow! See images from the EarthSky community here.

Don’t miss! Jupiter and Mars conjunction tomorrow

The Jupiter and Mars conjunction in the sky is tomorrow morning! After easing closer to each other all month, they'll be closest on August 14. Look east!

LIVE on Monday: What’s Phil thinking of NOW? GAIA

What's Phil thinking? Join Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, beginning at 12:15 p.m. central (17:15 UTC) on Monday, August 12 ... to hear him talk about GAIA.

Flamingos are beautiful and peculiar: Lifeform of the week

Flamingos are exotic birds that eat upside down, can produce milk, are amazing parents to their chicks and sleep on one leg. How cool are they?