On Monday evening, a great celestial drama begins as the moon sweeps by Venus. There are 4 bright planets in the evening sky now, and the moon will pass each one in turn.

You’ll enjoy this video of audio illusions from the guys at AsapSCIENCE. Can you understand the talking piano?

Chorus waves can be converted to sound. The ones around Earth sound like singing or chirping birds. Jupiter has stronger chorus waves, and now its large moon - Ganymede - has been found to have chorus waves a million times stronger than Jupiter's.

Today is World Elephant Day. Here's a look at how unique brain structures - different from those of any other mammal - are responsible for elephants' special abilities in learning and memory.

An early August morning in Mt. Vernon, Virginia. Photographer Greg Diesel Walck wrote, "Glorious beams this morning at sunrise over the Potomac River."

Launch of the daredevil Parker Solar Probe - which will get closer to the sun than any spacecraft in human history - has been delayed until Sunday, August 12.

The Parker Solar Probe, expected to launch Saturday, will get closer to the sun than any spacecraft in human history. How will the spacecraft withstand the heat?

A pyrocumulus cloud - sometimes called a fire cloud - forms when intense heat from wildfires causes air to rise. Californians have been seeing these towering clouds this July and August.

The August 11, 2018 partial solar eclipse happens will be seen in the Arctic, far-northeastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, and much of Asia (north and east).

Fast radio bursts - aka FRBs - are brief, powerful, puzzling bursts of radio waves from deep space. Now astronomers have detected a new and even more unusual type of FRB.