EarthSky community members have captured the giant sunspot region - AR 2781 - currently making its way across the sun's visible surface.

"Black hole family portrait" is a fancy way of saying "new catalog." But it's a very important and exciting catalog, released October 28, 2020, by gravitational wave astronomers, containing 39 new signals from black hole or neutron star collisions.

An owl, a nearly full moon and a shining planet Mars. What more could you ask for Halloween 2020?

Check out these 3 new posters from NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors, featuring cosmic frights for Halloween. They’re free to download, and available in English and Spanish.

The sun's second planet, Venus, as seen from the BepiColombo spacecraft as it passed on its way to the innermost planet, Mercury, earlier this month.

The Rosette nebula glows in this telescopic photo by EarthSky Community member William Shaheen.

In the past few days, several EarthSky Community members around the world shared their photos of the young moon, a thin crescent in the west after sunset. Beautiful! Thanks to all who contributed.

Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured an image of the asteroid last night.

Photos from the EarthSky community of the bright planet Mars, at its best. Earth passed between Mars and the sun - bringing the planet to a once-in-two-years opposition - on October 13, 2020.

A fireball is an especially bright meteor from space. It can start out icy and burn up entirely in our atmosphere, or rocky ... in which case a meteorite sometimes falls to Earth's surface. This bright fireball blazed over northeastern Mexico on Tuesday, October 6, 2020.