Life-hunting Perseverance rover is halfway to Mars

NASA announced that its Perseverance rover mission - which will search for evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars - has now passed the halfway mark in its journey to the planet.

See all 5 bright planets in November!

See all five bright planets in November 2020. Three of them - Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - pop out first thing at dusk and nightfall. The other two - Mercury and Venus - are found in the early morning sky.

Astronomers release a black hole family portrait

"Black hole family portrait" is a fancy way of saying "new catalog." But it's a very important and exciting catalog, released October 28, 2020, by gravitational wave astronomers, containing 39 new signals from black hole or neutron star collisions.

How to watch Taurid meteors in 2020

Although a modest shower, perhaps offering 5 meteors per hour, the Taurid shower lasts over a month and is known for producing dramatic fireballs, or exceptionally bright meteors.

Owl in front of the moon, with Mars above

An owl, a nearly full moon and a shining planet Mars. What more could you ask for Halloween 2020?

Electric! Astronomers find sprites in Jupiter’s atmosphere

Scientists with NASA's Juno mission say they have detected sprites or elves - electrical phenomena above thunderstorms on Earth - in the clouds of Jupiter for the first time. Unlike the red-colored earthly ones however, the Jovian ones are blue.

Blue Moon and red Mars on Halloween

The full moon of October 31, 2020 is the second full moon of a calendar month and therefore carries the name Blue Moon. It's also the smallest full moon of 2020. And it's near red Mars! Watch for it.

Here are 3 amazing feats of spiders

Halloween time is spider time. Three amazing spider skills you might not have known about.

How does fog form?

Fog forms when the air cools and water vapor condenses.

New NASA posters feature cosmic frights for Halloween

Check out these 3 new posters from NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors, featuring cosmic frights for Halloween. They’re free to download, and available in English and Spanish.