In 2020, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower nearly coincides with Venus' greatest elongation, or greatest apparent distance from the sun in our sky. Both will fall around the mornings of August 11, 12 and 13.

On Wednesday, forecasters at Colorado State increased their prediction for the number of named storms in the Atlantic in 2020 to 24 named storms and 5 major hurricanes.

Every year at this time, people around the world begin to experience a grand display of meteors. Bookmark this post! We'll be posting new meteor photos from our community of meteor-watchers in 2020 here.

Two beautiful images from the EarthSky community, showing early August 2020 storms in the U.S. Midwest.

Some viruses can hide out in the body and reemerge at later times. Which viruses do this, and can the new coronavirus do this too?

August 2020 presents a fine time to view four of the five bright planets: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

A laser shoots into the sky to study the atmosphere at Concordia research station in Antarctica.

Galactic cosmic rays are high energy particles from explosive events like supernovae, zinging through our solar system, constantly bombarding both Earth and Mars. A researcher suggests they supply enough energy to make subsurface life on Mars possible.

The European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter has unexpectedly detected carbon dioxide and ozone in Mars' atmosphere where the elusive methane should be, researchers in the UK and Russia have announced. The two gases may be hindering the probe's methane detections.

How we worked out when whales first evolved asymmetrical skulls.