Astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen program used AI (artificial intelligence) to find 72 repeating, short, unpredictable radio bursts, from a mysterious source 3 billion light years away. Read more.
Hurricane Florence is barreling for U.S. coast, right at the height of hurricane season. See a video from space. How do experts know when and where the next big hurricane is going to hit? It's complicated. Read more.
The young moon has been waxing larger, and appearing higher each evening in the west after sunset. The very bright object near it Thursday evening is Jupiter. Read more.
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Göran Strand captured an aurora over Sweden this week, but it wasn't until he mirrored the image that things got interesting. Can you see the alien? How about the storm trooper? Both are examples of pareidolia.