At a press conference August 11, 2021, planetary scientists released new odds on asteroid Bennu and its potential to strike Earth.

Scientists solved the mystery of Jupiter's energy crisis by learning that auroras roast the upper atmosphere of the gas giant planet.

2021 Perseid photos from this year's favorite summertime meteor shower. Thanks to all who are contributing at EarthSky Community Photos!

A rare nova visible to the eye erupted this week in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus the Serpent Bearer. Look for it soon!

Researchers suggest that Mars' subsurface lakes beneath the south polar ice cap may not actually be lakes after all. The first presumed lakes were discovered in 2018 and 2020, and now radar images from Mars Express reveal even more. But many of them are in locations too cold for even salty water to stay liquid.

The TESS planet-finder and Gaia space observatory have given us tickets to a red giant star symphony, now playing in our Milky Way galaxy.

Two spacecraft, Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo, make flybys of Venus within 33 hours of each other on August 9 and 10, 2021.

On August 10, the uncrewed NG-16 Cygnus cargo launch takes place on Northrop Grumman's Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Scientists found a metal-rich star catapulted from a supernova explosion. It's racing out of the galaxy at nearly 2 million miles an hour.

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope have been studying a distant exoplanet with an inner solar system much like ours.