Moon, Jupiter, Saturn September 5 to 7

These next few evenings - September 5, 6 and 7, 2019 - use the moon to find the planets Jupiter and Saturn. Have a telescope? Then use it to view Jupiter's four major moons and Saturn's glorious rings.

Ka-bam! Signs of a giant impact with Jupiter

Scientists used Juno spacecraft data and models of how Jupiter's inner core should look to probe the giant planet's early history. They now think an object with 10 times Earth's mass might have struck Jupiter billions of years ago.

ALMA images show what’s happening beneath Jupiter’s storms

New radio images made with the ALMA telescope provide a look at what's going on beneath Jupiter’s colorful storms and swirling clouds.

Hurricane Dorian: Why it’s so destructive

Dorian, the 2nd most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record, has devastated the Bahamas, with the death toll expected to rapidly rise as rescue work gets under way.

Wow! Night skies and petroglyphs

Gorgeous night skies over North America's best petroglyphs and ruins - and don't miss 2018’s Super Blue Moon lunar eclipse (at 1:03) - in Skyglow's newest video.

Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line

If you go by cartoons and T-shirts, you might think evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But evolution has no endpoint in mind.

Could microbes be affecting Venus’ climate?

Unusual dark patches in Venus' atmosphere - called "unknown absorbers" - play a key role in the planet's climate and albedo, according to a new study. But what are they? That's still a mystery.

When did humans start altering Earth?

The ArchaeoGlobe Project assessed knowledge on human land use over the past 10,000 years, through the contributions of more than 200 archaeologists. It concluded that, by 3,000 years ago, most of Earth was already transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers and pastoralists.

Young moon, stars, a planet September 3-5

As darkness falls these next few evenings - September 3, 4 and 5, 2019 - watch for the waxing crescent moon traveling in front of the constellation Libra the Scales. The moon heads eastward, as it always does in its orbit around Earth. It'll sweep past the star Zubenelgenubi, then head toward the red star Antares and bright planet Jupiter.

Hurricane Dorian viewed from space

NASA astronaut Christian Koch snapped this image of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station on Monday, September 2, 2019. The station orbits more than 200 miles (300 km) above Earth.