Brightest planets Venus and Jupiter are up before dawn now. Mars is there, too. Mercury will soon join. During October ... wow! They're going to put on a show.

Hurricane Joaquin will batter the central Bahamas with hurricane force winds, storm surge and heavy rain through tonight.

Fossilized shells and bones uncovered at two sites in Colombia. Scientists date this ancient sea turtle's remains at 120 million years old.

A satellite view from Monday shows wildfires still burning in Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. The fires started in August.

Sunday's supermoon, combined with an 18.6-year lunar cycle, caused high tides on both sides of the Atlantic this week. There were many flood warnings and alerts in effect in the UK on Tuesday night. In eastern North America, Tropical Storm Joaquin might combine with high tides to cause flooding.

Scientists are studying the increasingly fast rate of summertime ice melt in Greenland. See a new NASA video, plus illustrations of the 2015 melt season.

Indonesia's annual land-clearing fires sent smoke into other parts of Southeast Asia last week. In Singapore, schools closed Friday as air pollution hit a high.

India has reached for the stars with a successful launch of its first astronomy satellite. ASTROSAT carries India's version of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Mars is a desert world, but it's not completely dry. Scientists have found liquid water flowing on Mars.

Best photos of the September 27-28, 2015 total eclipse of the moon from awesome EarthSky community members! Thanks to all who posted.