6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (312+ words) Mars is famous for its tornado-like whirlwinds, made of the dusty debris coating its surface. These are dust devils. They form the same way on Mars as they do on Earth: as the sun warms the ground, the ground then…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (464+ words) When we look at the night sky, all the light we see " from planets to stars to nebulae and galaxies " comes from of ordinary matter. Yet astronomers say that ordinary matter makes up just 5% of the universe. The rest is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (258+ words) On June 14, 2026, Kilauea, on the Big Island of Hawaii, experienced the 49th episode of its most recent eruptive period, which began on December 23, 2024. The 49th episode was short-lived " only lasting for seven hours " but it produced a volnado, or a volcanic-generated tornado!...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (364+ words) Alan Dyer of Amazingsky. net recorded this video from his home in southern Alberta, Canada, around 51 degrees north latitude. Watch satellites swarm across the night sky in a 2. 5-hour time lapse aimed toward the summer Milky Way. Video via Alan…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (558+ words) The new research comes from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The journal Communications Earth & Environment published the peer-reviewed study on June 9, 2026. When the 6. 5-mile-wide (10-km-wide) asteroid struck Earth, it formed the Chicxulub crater, which " though buried under layers of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (915+ words) There've been a total of six robot rovers creeping across the surface of the world next door, Mars. Only two " Curiosity and Perseverance " are active today. But, in 2028, the Rosalind Franklin rover will join them. It'll ride to Mars on…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (939+ words) By Rebecca Davies, Swinburne University of Technology and Deanne Fisher, Swinburne University of Technology At the start of cosmic history, galaxies were big clouds of gas. And they grew by turning that gas into stars. If a galaxy runs out…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1266+ words) This article was originally published in The Conversation. Edits by Earth Sky. By Marco Ajello, Clemson University and Christopher Karwin, Clemson University. NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon through the Artemis program and ultimately send humans to Mars…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (399+ words) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made another significant discovery about the interstellar comet 3 I/ATLAS: it contains methane. Researchers said on June 1, 2026, that this is the 1st time scientists have detected methane on an interstellar object. And the finding suggests…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (661+ words) The University of Bern originally published this article on June 8, 2026. Edits by Earth Sky. Researchers recently modeled 1, 000 years of earthquake history along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California. Their finding? Stresses in the crust are higher…...