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Deborah Byrd
Asteroid nicknamed Beast to fly past Earth June 8
Once they looked, astronomers began finding many asteroids near Earth. The one passing Sunday, June 8 is an especially big one, found only two months ago.
June 6, 2014
Jet zips past moon
"Aimed at the moon and started to focus when I saw the jet enter the frame ... "
June 6, 2014
Why do koala bears hug trees?
As temperatures climb, koalas move to cooler trees and go limp, like wet dishrags. Turns out their tree-hugging is a cooling mechanism.
June 4, 2014
Severe storms blast through central U.S. on Tuesday
More severe weather expected Wednesday through the Ohio/Tennessee Valley region. Damaging wind and large hail. A tornado threat cannot be ruled out.
June 4, 2014
Jupiter and three moon shadows
It's cool when you catch a shadow of one of the large Galilean satellites of Jupiter, moving across Jupiter's cloudtops. Here are three shadows at once, from June 3.
June 4, 2014
Asteroids that buzz Earth
Cool infographic showing asteroids that will come closest to Earth in the next 200 years.
June 3, 2014
See three planets tonight
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn can all be seen easily on these June evenings.
June 3, 2014
Watch online Tuesday as asteroid passes at moon’s distance
Asteroid 2014 KH39 will pass just outside the moon's distance on Tuesday, June 3, at around 3 p.m. CDT (20 UTC). Watch live via the Virtual Telescope Project.
June 3, 2014
Crowd-funded project aims to build world’s first simulated organism
It will be the world’s most detailed virtual life form — an accurate, open-source, digital version of a worm called C. elegans.
May 28, 2014
A gamma ray burst from the Andromeda galaxy yesterday? No.
No GRB in M31. False alarm. Darn.
May 28, 2014
