These next several days - March 14-17, 2021 - look westward after sunset to get an eyeful of the young, slender waxing crescent moon adorning the evening twilight.

The Tianwen-1 mission entered Mars orbit at the end of February. It's expected to land a rover on Mars' surface in May. In the meantime, check out these new images from the Tianwen-1 orbiter.

A new study shows that just a half a degree of global temperature rise markedly increases fire danger on the most widely inhabited continents.

On March 3, scientists at CERN in Geneva - which operates the the Large Hadron Collider, largest particle physics laboratory in the world - announced the discovery of 4 brand-new elementary particles.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope went into a protective safe mode early March 7, after on onboard software program failed during a guide star acquisition. NASA has now announced that spacecraft was moved out of safe mode, into a pre-science state with the plan of returning to normal operations.

Hours of radio observations have enabled scientists to create a map of the locations in Earth's night sky of 25,000 supermassive black holes. These black holes are very far away, occupying the cores of distant galaxies.

Via sonification, you can listen to the sounds of space images, as observed at different frequencies. Listen to videos featuring some of these orchestral pieces here!

Clever camerawork allowed scientists to view an elusive cloud that streams away from Mars' volcano Arsia Mons and determine how it's formed.

A new study reveals a distant exoplanet with one hemisphere pulsing with volcanic activity and the other hemisphere quietly providing the fuel.

The zodiacal light is a strange pyramid of light that extends from the eastern or western horizon, before dawn or as true darkness falls. It was known to stem from dust moving in the plane of our solar system. The Juno spacecraft has found that Mars might be the source of the dust.