Dark Ovals As Big As Earth Keep Appearing On Jupiter, Scientists Say An artificially colored view of Jupiter observed in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red … [+] Spot, which appears blue, another oval […]

When Will The Milky Way Smash Into The Andromeda Galaxy? It May Already Be Underway, Say Scientists According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding with the closest giant galaxy, Andromeda. Published in Nature […]

‘Dark Comets’ May Be The Reason Why Earth Is Wet, Say Scientists Where did the water on Earth come from? About 71% of Earth’s surface area is oceans, which contain 97% of Earth’s water. Human bodies are 55-60% w […]

Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking — And Scientists Think They Know Why   Look at any image of Jupiter and one feature is hard to ignore—its “Great Red Spot,” a massive storm raging close to its equato […]

Why Earth Is Now Spinning More Slowly—And Days Are Getting Longer The melting of Earth’s ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica is causing the oceans to swell near the equator, altering the speed at which Earth r […]

Beware ‘Head-On’ Aurora Displays Say Scientists “Interplanetary shocks” that hit Earth’s magnetic field head-on are what scientists need to forecast to protect any infrastructure that conducts […]

A Comet Exploded Above North America 12,800 Years Ago, Say Scientists Scientists have found evidence for the so-called Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis that a comet exploded in Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years ago, c […]

‘Potato Moon’ Photobombs Jupiter’s Great Red Spot In New NASA Images NASA’s Juno mission captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet … [+] on March 7, 2024. They provide a g […]

Solar Storms And Aurora Could Persist As Sun Unleashes X-Class Flare The strongest solar flare since 2017 exploded on the sun late on Friday as a massive display of aurora took place on Earth. This latest solar […]

Weird New Total Solar Eclipse Photo Sheds Light On Mysteries Of The Sun This high-res processed image of the April 8 eclipse shows the Sun’s corona, its outermost … [+] atmosphere, in artificial colors that i […]

When To See The Eta Aquariids At Their Best The Eta Aquariids, slated to be one of the best meteor showers during 2024, have begun. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower runs from April 15 through […]

When To Remove Your Eclipse Glasses If You’re In The Path Of Totality Solar eclipse glasses are so important, but on April 8, some people in the path of totality will wear them when they absolutely should not—and l […]

This Is How To Find Clear Weather, Say Experts The second diamond ring during the total eclipse of the Sun, November 14, 2012, from a site near … [+] Lakeland Downs, Queensland, Australia. […]

Why Your Total Solar Eclipse Map Is Suddenly Wrong There are dozens of fabulous eclipse maps and eclipse map apps available for April’s total solar eclipse—some of them have even become ult […]

Best Places To See Animals Behave Weirdly “Oh my, the birds—listen to the birds!” It was 30 seconds into the darkest totality I had ever experienced when the parakeets began to screa […]

‘Double Solar Flare’ Sees Sun Wake Up Weeks Before Total Solar Eclipse This morning, a massive solar flare spewing into space at light speed reminds us that the sun is at—or is very close to—the peak of its 11- […]

Something Weird Is Happening To Comet Set To Show During April’s Total Solar Eclipse — How To See It Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks: 7 Mar. 2024.   Gianluca Masi/The Virtual Telescope Project A comet almost as famous as Halley’s comet is br […]

Why Today’s ‘Supermoon’ Won’t Cause A Total Solar Eclipse — But April’s Will The moon’s shadow only hits the Earth when the line of nodes is pointed toward the Sun.   NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On Sunday, […]

35 Events For New York’s First Total Solar Eclipse For 99 Years Deciding where to see the total solar eclipse in New York is difficult when there are so many spectacular options. The path of totality—just 1 […]

The Night Sky This Week A full moon rises behind the snow-topped San Gabriel Mountains and the Los Angeles downtown skyline … [+] on December 29, 2020 in Los Angeles, […]