Space stories from Noozify's own reporting.
Saturn reaches opposition on October 4th with its rings tilted back into view, and two mornings later a crescent Moon swallows Jupiter before dawn over parts of North America. Add two meteor showers, one of them from Halley's Comet, Venus slipping between Earth and the Sun, and the Hunter's Moon.
No eclipse, no drama — and that's the point. September's sky is Venus at its blinding best, a Harvest Moon that rises early for a week straight, and the Milky Way's last good month before it leaves for the year.
A discarded rocket hit the Moon last Wednesday and left a chemical signature nobody expected. Next Wednesday brings a solar eclipse and the year's best meteor shower on the same date — and that pairing is not the coincidence it looks like.
A maybe-biosignature, a fleet of skeptical astronomers, and 33 days of the world's best radio telescopes listening for a reply that never came — the strange, still-unresolved case of K2-18b.