May's Eta Aquariid meteor shower is good over several mornings. Try Saturday morning, May 4! Best mornings might be May 5 and 6 in the hours before dawn.
Visible planets and night sky guide for May 2024. Watch for the moon, Saturn, Mars and Mercury in the next few mornings. Will you see Mercury? It's hard to see.
NASA's Webb telescope looked at the sub-Neptune exoplanet K2-18 b. It found methane, carbon dioxide, a possible ocean, and even ... maybe ... a biosignature.
New experiments show that methane on Mars, in Gale crater, may seep out of the ground when hard crusts of perchlorate salt temporarily warm up and weaken.
Mercury reaches its greatest elongation - greatest distance from the sunrise - on May 9, 2024. Look east at dawn. It'll brighten for the next few weeks.