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Kepler finds 10 Earth-like exoplanets
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has identified 219 new exoplanet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star.
June 21, 2017
Auroras in front of Magellanic Clouds
Hunter Davis, at the South Pole, captured auroras flickering in front of the two Magellanic Clouds.
June 21, 2017
Sunset
No matter where you are on Earth, your northernmost sunsets of the year are happening around now.
June 20, 2017
Space gardening
Future space outpost dwellers will need to grow plants for food and to recycle air and water. Here's what scientists are learning about space farming from plants grown on the ISS.
June 20, 2017
Moon and Venus before sunrise June 20
You can't miss them! Look east an hour or two before sunrise. Moon is the 2nd-brightest, and Venus the 3rd-brightest, objects in our sky after the sun.
June 19, 2017
Elon Musk’s Mars manifesto
What if the cost of going to Mars as a colonist were less than US $200,000, or about the median cost of a house in the U.S.? Would you go? Elon Musk thinks many would.
June 18, 2017
A ribbon of ammonia in Orion
Radio telescopes have detected a 50-light-year filament of star-forming gas, zigzagging its way through the northern portion of the Orion Molecular Cloud.
June 18, 2017
Saturn over New York City
Think you can't see stars or planets from the city? Check out these 2 photos of Saturn over New York.
June 17, 2017
Close and far moons
Peter Lowenstein in Zimbabwe contrasts the size of the May 27 waxing crescent moon, which was close to Earth, with the June 9 full moon, which was far from Earth.
June 16, 2017
Half-lit last quarter moon on June 17
Although appearing half-illuminated, the last quarter moon carries that name because it's three-quarters of the way from one new moon to the next.
June 16, 2017
