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Scientists believe a huge impact scar, hundreds of miles wide, came from an asteroid that broke in two moments before slamming into the central Australian outback.

Eleanor Imster

March 24, 2015

Dwarf planet Ceres gets place names

First topographical map of Ceres with named quadrangles. Scientists announced the names at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

Andrew R. Brown

Deborah Byrd

March 24, 2015

Do stars make sounds?

The stars might be singing – but, since sound can't propagate through the vacuum of space, no one can hear them.

Deborah Byrd

March 24, 2015

Meteor season ahead!

Mount Rainier, the Milky Way and a Perseid meteor! Plus a look forward to April's Lyrid meteor shower.

Deborah Byrd

March 24, 2015

Help name features on Pluto and Charon

New Horizons spacecraft will sweep past Pluto and its moons on July 15, revealing their surface features for the first time! You're invited to help choose names.

Eleanor Imster

March 23, 2015

Real Paleo Diet: early hominids ate just about everything

Hominids didn’t spread across Africa, and then the entire globe, by utilizing just one foraging strategy or sticking to a precise mix of carbohydrates, proteins and fats

EarthSky Voices

March 23, 2015

See it! Venus, Mars, moon March 21-22, 2015

EarthSky community photos of dazzling planet Venus and the moon - with fainter Mars nearby - on the nights of March 21 and 22, 2015.

Deborah Byrd

March 23, 2015

Surprise! Arctic sea ice record winter low

2015 Arctic sea ice maximum lowest measured since records began being kept in 1979. Maximum took place in February, 15 days earlier than the 1981-2010 average.

Matt Daniel

March 22, 2015

EarthSky meets its first crowd-funding campaign goal in one day

Web users help support the popular science website, citing “the value and impact of science education,” “science and beauty” and “sharing the wonder” as reasons.

Editors of EarthSky

March 22, 2015