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Video: Cruise over dwarf planet Ceres

Take a tour of weird Ceres! Visit the mysterious bright spots and a 4-mile-tall mountain. And get your red/blue glasses out for a global view in 3D.

Eleanor Imster

August 7, 2015

Is this the largest feature in the universe?

Astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the universe: a ring of gamma ray bursts - and hence galaxies - 5 billion light years across.

Editors of EarthSky

August 7, 2015

How sunlight pushes asteroids

What makes the difference between a near-miss asteroid and a potential hit? Scientists think it might be related to a force called the Yarkovsky effect.

Eleanor Imster

August 6, 2015

Tracking an oddball group of near-Earth asteroids

Astronomers have traced some mysterious near-Earth asteroids back to their likely source.

Editors of EarthSky

August 4, 2015

Breakthrough Listen not all about aliens

New SETI project will scan the skies for signs of alien communications, but might also unveil other secrets about the universe.

EarthSky Voices

August 4, 2015

What the Philae comet lander found

Philae data suggest that organic compounds - which eventually translated into living organisms here on Earth - existed in the early solar system.

EarthSky Voices

August 3, 2015

A third of Milky Way stars have changed orbit

Astronomers have created a new map of the Milky Way that shows that about 30 percent of the stars have traveled a long way from the orbits they were born with.

Editors of EarthSky

August 3, 2015

Seeing the star with nearest rocky planet

How you can see the star HD219134, announced last week to have the nearest rocky exoplanet. Plus ... the star's proper motion, captured by an amateur astronomer.

Eddie Irizarry

August 3, 2015