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Polar vortex disruption due to climate change? Or … why so cold outside?!

Arctic changes associated with global warming have increased the likelihood of disruptions in the polar vortex, which can cause cold snaps in southerly regions.

EarthSky Voices

January 24, 2024

SpaceX wraps up Starlink launches for January 2024

SpaceX's 7th and final Starlink launch for the month took flight from California at 5:57 UTC on January 29. Learn more here.

Lia De La Cruz

January 23, 2024

Shapes of early galaxies: surfboards and pool noodles

NASA's Webb space telescope has revealed that many early galaxies in the universe resembled surfboards and pool noodles in shape.

Paul Scott Anderson

January 23, 2024

Is this nearby exoplanet a water world? Or a mini-Neptune?

A new study says that an exoplanet 50 light-years away is either a water world or a mini-Neptune. NASA's Webb telescope might tell us which it is.

Paul Scott Anderson

January 23, 2024

Ocean sunfish are odd, gentle giants: Lifeform of the week

Because normal is boring, we love this large and odd-looking fish. Read more about ocean sunfish, the gentle giants, and watch a video.

Cristina Ortiz

January 21, 2024

Would-be Peregrine lunar lander has come home

Peregrine was meant to be the 1st commercial lunar lander. Then controllers noticed a fuel leak. Yesterday, the spacecraft came home, making a fiery Earth reentry.

Dave Adalian

Deborah Byrd

Kelly Kizer Whitt

January 19, 2024

Miles-thick buried water ice at Mars’ equator?

Planetary scientists knew there were massive buried deposits near Mars' equator, but not what they consisted of. New research found that it's buried water ice.

EarthSky Voices

January 19, 2024