Watch the first Mars landing in 6 years this Monday, November 26. That's when NASA’s InSight lander will make its daring descent to Mars' surface. The spacecraft is scheduled to touch down Monday at approximately 20:00 UTC (3 p.m. EST; translate UTC to your time), with live landing commentary starting about an hour before. Click in to learn how to watch.
NASA has chosen an area in the Elysium Planitia – high plains near the Martian equator – as the site for the landing of the InSight spacecraft. Read more.
When rain fell on the arid Atacama Desert, it was reasonable to expect floral blooms to follow. But a team of astrobiologists found that the water brought death instead. Read more.
A rare rainbow in the Atacama Desert. Image via Carlos González-Silva/Cornell Chronicle.
Look for the sky’s most celebrated star cluster – the Pleiades – a tiny, misty dipper-shaped star cluster adorning the sky all night long on these November nights. Photo: Tom Wildoner.
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