The 3rd of this year's 3 Jupiter-Pluto conjunctions is coming up on November 12, 2020. Jupiter won't have another conjunction with Pluto again until February 4, 2033. And another one this good? Not for centuries.

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 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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Fog forms when the air cools and water vapor condenses.