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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch explained
In light of the sheer physical enormity of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the complexity of its causes, what can we possibility do about it?
August 13, 2014
Watch clouds move over a methane sea on Titan
NASA has released an animation of methane clouds moving above a hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's large moon, Titan.
August 13, 2014
Video: It’s giant panda triplets!
They are the world's only known surviving set of giant panda triplets, born at a zoo in southern China. All three are adorable ... and expected to survive.
August 13, 2014
Video: Baby elephant sees ocean for the first time
To celebrate World Elephant Day ... It's an EarthSky favorite!
August 12, 2014
A new way to search for exomoons
We now know more than 1,800 exoplanets - worlds orbiting distant suns - but zero exomoons. UT Arlington physicists propose a new way to search for them.
August 12, 2014
Video: Colliding atmospheres of Mars and Comet Siding Spring
Martian auroras? Maybe a meteor shower? What Mars satellites might see when Comet Siding Spring sweeps super close to Mars this October.
August 11, 2014
Video: Rosetta’s race to map its comet
Last week, Rosetta became the first spacecraft ever to rendezvous with a comet. Now the spacecraft is in a race against time. Rosetta's next challenges, here.
August 11, 2014
Perseid meteors versus the supermoon
Which is brighter - Perseid fireballs or a supermoon? You'll find out as the year's biggest, brightest full moon arrives as Perseid meteor shower starts to peak.
August 10, 2014
Weak supernova might have left zombie star
Astronomers used Hubble Space Telescope images to spot a star system that could have left behind a "zombie star" after an unusually weak supernova explosion.
August 9, 2014
