Also: Watch the Moon occult Saturn, and JUICE nears Earth
Marsquakes reveal a lot of underground water. Maybe. Plus an EarthSky interview about Gaia.
The JUICE spacecraft will be passing Earth this week on its way (eventually) to Jupiter
Spotting Saturn in the night sky, plus a quake shifts the Earth in Japan
Also: Live interview today, two planets kiss in the morning, and the Perseid meteor shower
How is it holding on to its air?
Because of orbital mechanics, that’s why.
The collapsed roof of a lunar lava tube hints at what may become a future astronaut habitat
NASA turns off a venerable space mission. Also, a phantom crater on Europa
Archived Hubble images show the star prior to the titanic explosion
C/2024 L5 had a close encounter with Saturn and is now on its way out to interstellar space
The nearby Jupiter-like world orbits Epsilon Indi A, a star less than 12 light-years from us