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Best photos: Amazing moon and planets October 7-11
Best photos of the moon's glorious sweep past the planets Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury. Photos from EarthSky friends. October 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
October 11, 2015
Mars Curiosity rover sends a postcard
If you want to imagine standing on the surface of the Red Planet Mars ... look at this.
October 10, 2015
Mysterious ripples race across planet-forming disk
Astronomers have found fast-moving wave-like features - ripples - in the dusty disk surrounding a young star. Nothing like this was ever observed or predicted.
October 9, 2015
Where to look for ET life? Habitability index aids in the search
Powerful telescopes coming soon. Where shall we point them to find extraterrestrial life? Astronomers have created a way to help prioritize exoplanets.
October 9, 2015
NASA orbiter views real ‘Martian’ sites
Real-life views of places on Mars where a fictional stranded astronaut, Mark Watney - from the Hollywood movie The Martian - undergoes his many trials.
October 9, 2015
Australia’s largest carnivorous dino yet
Miners, working in opal deposits in the New South Wales outback, first discovered the fossilized remains of this creature, which has been dubbed Lightning Claw.
October 9, 2015
Double catastrophe killed dinosaurs, says study
Asteroid impact and volcanic eruptions might have been a one-two punch that killed off the dinosaurs. New dates suggest the catastrophes were nearly simultaneous.
October 9, 2015
Traveling at warp speed through aurora territory
Fun photo from a great nature photographer, Göran Strand in Sweden.
October 9, 2015
Video: First biofluorescent turtle
Explorers happen upon the first glowing sea turtle ever recorded.
October 7, 2015
See Wednesday’s rocket launch from U.S. mid-Atlantic
Time will be 7 p.m. EDT this evening. People in a wide swath of U.S. mid-Atlantic states can see it, if skies are clear.
October 6, 2015
