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Cassini captures five of Saturn’s moons
Five of Saturn's moons appear in one image taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2011.
September 22, 2011
Traces of Fukushima fallout reached SF Bay Area in March 2011
After Japan's 2011 earthquake, people speculated that radiation from the Fukushima reactor would travel to California. It did, but only in trace amounts.
September 21, 2011
Running Chicken Nebula image in ruby red
An image from the European Southern Observatory shows the Running Chicken Nebula, a star-forming region in space, 6,500 light-years away.
September 21, 2011
Dinosaur-killing asteroid origin remains a mystery
NASA's WISE mission rules out the Baptistina family of asteroids in the search for which ones were the dinosaur-killing asteroid.
September 20, 2011
Amphibians and reptiles found in largest numbers in Florida
A study indicates that the pet trade is the number one reason Florida has the largest number of invasive amphibians and reptiles of any place in the world.
September 19, 2011
Newborn dinosaur fossil discovered in Maryland
A Maryland fossil hunter finds the youngest nodosaur ever found and the first newborn dinosaur ever recovered in the eastern U.S.
September 15, 2011
50 new exoplanets announced, including 16 super-Earths
At the Extreme Solar Systems conference this week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 350 experts talking about 50 new exoplanets.
September 13, 2011
Connecticut River spews sediment after Irene
Satellite image from September 2, 2011, shows Connecticut River spewing muddy sediment into Long Island Sound after Hurricane Irene.
September 12, 2011
Nearby brown dwarf has extreme weather, astronomers say
A gigantic storm raging on the surface of this brown dwarf might be like Jupiter's red spot - but even grander in scale.
September 12, 2011
Study shows dangerous bacteria in uniforms of doctors, nurses
In a modern Israeli hospital, researchers found 60 percent of the hospital uniforms of doctors and nurses tested positive for potentially dangerous bacteria.
September 12, 2011
