Earthsky Voices
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By Ilan Kelman, UCL and Matthew Blackett, Coventry University You deserve a daily dose of good news. For the latest in science and the night sky, click here to subscribe to our free daily newsletter. Around 631,000 years ago — a geological blink of an eye — catastrophe unfolded in what is now northwestern Wyoming in the U.S. During what is thought to have been a series of immense volcanic eruptions, life within hundreds of kilometers of the blasts was shattered. Ash was dispersed across much of
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NASA published this original story on September 16, 2026. Edits by EarthSky. You deserve a daily dose of good news. For the latest in science and the night sky, subscribe to EarthSky’s free daily newsletter. It started as a routine data-quality check. But as Robert Wagner – an image processing specialist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) – scanned a giant moon map on his computer screen, an unusually large bright spot circled by a dark halo caught his eye. It implied that surface ma
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NOIRLab published this original story on September 8, 2026. Edits by EarthSky. You deserve a daily dose of good news. For the latest in science and the night sky, subscribe to EarthSky’s free daily newsletter. An international team of astronomers said on September 8, 2026, that it has discovered the most distant progenitor to a galaxy supercluster ever. The discovery supports existing theories of how galaxy clusters evolve. And it reveals that they lie at the intersection of multiple filaments o
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By Margaret E. Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dayana Alagirova, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Karryl Kim Sagun Trajano, Nanyang Technological University Microbes from space have fueled the plots of science fiction mainstays like Project Hail Mary and The Andromeda Strain. But with more space missions launching each year, finding extraterrestrial life in a microbial form is becoming more plausible. What will the response be back here on Earth if – or when – scientists discover ext
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An international team led by Agustín Sánchez-Lavega has now confirmed the discovery of a Saturn south pole decagon: a 10-sided atmospheric figure swirling over Saturn’s south pole. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope first captured faint, subtle hints of a 10-vertex polygonal shape in 2023. Ground-based amateur and professional astronomers noted an undulating band in 2024, which sharpened into a fully defined decagon structure in Hubble images taken in August–September 2025. The discovery team officia
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