View larger. | An example of weird, dark streaks called recurring slope lineae on the slopes of Mars’ Horowitz crater. Do liquid water brines form these streaks? A new study suggested brines on Mars are less likely to occur than scientists thought. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona. 2025 EarthSky lunar calendar is available … Read more
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Chuck Reinhart captured this starry scene from Vincennes, Indiana, on November 1, 2024. Thank you, Chuck! On December 30-31, 2024, we’ll have what some call a Black Moon. On that evening, the moon won’t be visible because it’s a new moon, the 2nd new moon of a month: voila! … Read more
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Richard Witkowski captured the aurora storm on May 10-11, 2024, from Indiana Dunes National Park. It was surely one of the best night sky events of this past year. Thanks, Richard! So how about 2025? We can’t predict the next auroral display, but we can provide a preview of … Read more
In 2025, skywatchers can look forward to a series of stunning celestial events, including a bright Mars occulted by the Wolf Moon, Venus at its brightest, a spectacular “devil’s horns” solar eclipse, and plenty of meteor showers peaking under moonless night skies. Although many of these events are visible to the naked eye, a nice … Read more
It’s not often that DJI is behind the curve, but even the world’s leading drone manufacturer isn’t going to be leading the pack all of the time. The DJI Neo is a sub-250 g beginner drone that can be flown autonomously, with the DJI Fly app, using the DJI RC-N3 Controller, and even flown as … Read more
Now that the final season has finished, we figured it’d be the perfect time to sit down and talk about why The Bad Batch worked so well, both as a Clone Wars spinoff and a Star Wars series with a voice of its own. After Clone Force 99 debuted in the final season of The … Read more
From an occultation of Mars to conjunctions with Venus and Jupiter, the moon will be involved in a bevy of spectacular events in 2025, and it will appear at its biggest and brightest since 2019. Here are some dates for this year’s moon-gazing diary. If you’re looking for some skywatching gear to make the most … Read more
Historians will look back on 2024 as a special year for spaceflight. From SpaceX plucking a huge rocket out of the sky to the first privately funded spacewalk to the launch of a $5 billion mission to study an ice-covered ocean moon, this year held many record-breaking achievements and advances that brought humanity ever closer … Read more
In the coming years, NASA and other space agencies will send humans back to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era—this time to stay! To maximize line-of-sight communication with Earth, solar visibility, and access to water ice, NASA, the ESA, and China have selected the Lunar South Pole (LSP) as the location … Read more
December 2024 will see a rare “black moon,” a term for the second new moon in a calendar month. The second new moon of December will occur at 5:27 p.m. ET (2227 GMT) on Dec. 30, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, two days after the waning moon passes by Mercury in the predawn sky. … Read more