The Sky This Week from May 8 to 15: The Moon meets Mars

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 8Pluto is stationary at 7 A.M. EDT in Capricornus, although ...

NASA dropped a probe into Jupiter at 170,000 km/h and what it found 200 kilometers beneath the clouds was so extreme that the signal died after just 58 min…

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft uncovered violent conditions inside Jupiter before its mission ended in the giant planet.
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No, this isn't a solar eclipse. It's Mars, captured by NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche probe

NASA spacecraft Psyche has captured a stunning image of Mars ahead of a flyby on Friday (May 15).
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30-mile-high clouds of acid on Venus are made by the largest 'hydraulic jump' in the solar system

A wall of 30-mile-high acid clouds on Venus formed thanks to a phenomenon found in your kitchen sink.
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This Tiny Celestial Body Past Pluto Shouldn’t Have an Atmosphere—but Astronomers Say They May Have Detected One

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches ar ...