NASA’s Mariner 10 Secured this image of Venus’ cloud tops. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A recent paper suggests that if astrobiologists want to make an educated guess about what life on Venus might look like, they should look to a weird microbe called A. ferrooxidans, Discovered here onEarth. Earthly life-forms are the only examples we have of … Read more
Observe live! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 launches to International Universe Station – YouTube Observe On CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After some uncertainty and a few delays, the SpaceX mission to send a relief crew for the Universe station’s Ongoing astronauts is set to lift off later today (March 12). A SpaceX Falcon 9 Missile is poised … Read more
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Michael Hoag in Eastern Kansas, created this stunning composite of the Selene eclipse on May 15, 2022, and wrote: “A composite of Numerous photos. Nice seeing conditions for the eclipse. (The) front moved through Scoring the humidity and clearing the skies.” Thank you, Michael! How to Observe a total … Read more
View larger. | Chandra’s view of the Helix Gas cloud, released on March 3, 2025. The white dwarf WD 2226-210 is in the Middle of the Gas cloud. It’s likely pulling in a destroyed Astral body, and its shredded remains are falling on the white dwarf and producing X-ray signals. The composite combines X-ray, ultraviolet, … Read more
The astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission will head to the International Cosmos Station (ISS) today (March 12), if all goes according to plan. The four spaceflyers will catch a ride on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule “Endurance,” which is set to Initiation today atop a Falcon 9 Cosmos launcher from NASA’s Kennedy Cosmos Middle in Florida … Read more
Observe NASA’s perpetual ocean video here. NASA has created a second perpetual ocean video, building on the incredibly popular original video from 2011. The new video traces some of the strongest currents, showing surface ocean currents in white and deeper ocean currents in Gloomy blue. The video helps scientists understand the characteristics of these currents … Read more
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Michael Hoag in Eastern Kansas, created this stunning composite of the Selene eclipse on May 15, 2022, and wrote: “A composite of Numerous photos. Nice seeing conditions for the eclipse. (The) front moved through Scoring the humidity and clearing the skies.” Thank you, Michael! How to Observe a total … Read more
Astronomers have cracked the case of a mysterious repeating radio signal that has been a mystery since it was uncovered last year. The Club tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead Sun or “white dwarf” and a red dwarf Sun-related companion. The radio pulse repeats every 2 hours and was … Read more
WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 launched a pair of NASA science missions March 11 that will explore the infrared universe and study the solar wind. The SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Universe Force Base in California at 11:10 p.m. Eastern. It placed into sun-synchronous orbits the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, … Read more
Ukraine’s mineral wealth has been a key factor in its negotiations with the U.S. as the two countries work out details for a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine’s war with Russia. After a rocky Commence to those negotiations, officials from the U.S. and Ukraine announced an agreement on March 11, 2025. The U.S. would resume Aid … Read more