For the first time in more than 4 years, NASA is now accepting applications for future astronauts. Aspiring moon to Mars explorers have until March 31 to apply.

An intense storm and lake-effect snow walloped upstate New York - especially rural areas in western New York - in late February 2020. On the shores of Lake Erie, the storm created a dramatic display of thick, windblown ice on homes and buildings.

On March 1 and 2, 2020, the waxing moon is near the bright red star Aldebaran in Taurus the Bull, and the Pleiades star cluster. Dazzling Venus is nearby.

NASA has issued a public challenge where you can help design a critical sensor that would be needed for a future rover on Venus.

Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang.

This video tracks a telescopic view of Venus from when it came into easy view in our evening sky - around October 2019 - to May 2020. It shows how Venus wanes in phase as the planet's disk size increases, and explains why.

On February 6, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica, 64.9°F (18.3°C). The warm spell caused widespread melting on nearby glaciers

The newly found bones were close to the site of the famous ‘flower burial’ in Shanidar Cave, which overturned notions of Neanderthals as brutish subhumans and suggested they buried their dead.

Late in the day on Thursday, astronomers released this new image of 2020 CD3, a small object now confirmed to be orbiting Earth temporarily. It was apparently captured into Earth orbit 3 years ago. Its fate, here.

These next few evenings - February 27 and 28, 2020 - watch for the crescent moon and the brilliant planet Venus to pair up on the sky's dome.