Some of the most painful stings come from tarantula hawk wasps, warrior wasps, and bullet ants.

While extragalactic "rogue" planets - not orbiting any star - have been reported before, the new exoplanet is the first to be detected orbiting stars in another galaxy. And not just any galaxy ... but M51, the beautiful Whirlpool, 23 million light-years away.

Geneticists around the world are studying 100,000 coronavirus genomes - sampled from Covid-19 patients in over 100 countries - to try to understand how the virus is mutating, What science has learned.

These next several nights - September 28, 29 and 30 - 2020 - use the bright waxing gibbous moon to find the bright star Fomalhaut, the Autumn Star.

Brilliant Venus, in and of itself, is worth getting up for, but the tantalizingly close encounter of Venus with the bright star Regulus won't happen again for another 8 years. Start watching them now!

Water-vapor geysers erupt from cracks at the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Scientists using Cassini data now have evidence for fresh ice at the moon's north pole, too. Could it be more geysers for this fascinating ice moon?

Did you miss the moon's sweep in the last few nights past our solar system's biggest planets, Jupiter and Saturn? Here are a few photos - from the EarthSky Community - of that glorious night sky scene.

Live in the Southern Hemisphere? Take advantage of your golden opportunity to view Mercury in the evening sky now. Live in the Northern Hemisphere? Give Mercury a try after sunset! You might see it.

Here's how we can find out if it's a sign of life.

Watch online today as asteroid 2020 SW swoops in for its closest approach to Earth on Thursday. The asteroid will pass just 7% of the moon's distance. Charts here for telescope users. How to watch online.