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Learning to live on the moon … underwater
Astronaut teams practice living and working on the moon in the pool at at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.
September 18, 2019
Sub-auroral arc over Peyto Lake, Alberta
STEVE, and the northern lights. Does it get any better than this?
September 15, 2019
Yesterday evening’s Venus-Mercury conjunction
The close conjunction of Mercury with Venus in last night's evening sky was near the sun and exceedingly tough to spot, even with optical aid. Still, EarthSky friend Helio Vital managed to capture it!
September 13, 2019
Latest Saturn portrait, from Hubble
The solar system’s most photogenic planet, captured by most earthlings' favorite space telescope.
September 12, 2019
Venus returns to evening sky
If you're looking for Venus now - the brightest planet - you won't find it with the eye alone. But it's possible to catch the planet in September 2019, near the sunset, with a telescope.
September 8, 2019
Hurricane Dorian viewed from space
NASA astronaut Christian Koch snapped this image of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station on Monday, September 2, 2019. The station orbits more than 200 miles (300 km) above Earth.
September 2, 2019
Webb telescope now assembled for 1st time
On August 28, 2019, NASA announced that the 2 halves of the James Webb Space Telescope have now been successfully connected. The telescope is being assembled at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California.
September 2, 2019
A dynamic dying star, caught by Hubble
This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope shows star death. It's a planetary nebula in the direction of the constellation Gemini the Twins.
August 31, 2019
