The International Space Station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes To the eye alone, it looks like a bright, moving star. Various online tools can help you capture its fleeting pass in front of the moon or sun.

EarthSky Community members around the world are sharing their photos of this year's Leonid meteor shower. Beautiful! Thanks to all who contributed.

Images of Diwali 2020 from an ashram in India.

Lovely photos of November butterflies from an ashram garden in India.

The South and North Taurid meteor showers ramble along during November and often produce fireballs. Beautiful Taurid photos from EarthSky community members - plus more about the shower - here.

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.