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View from space: Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn
The southernmost tip of South America, seen from the ISS.
May 26, 2014
Meet star cluster NGC 3590
This star cluster - called NGC 3590 - isn't just pretty. It's also helping astronomers understand the Milky Way galaxy in which our sun and Earth reside.
May 21, 2014
NASA is go for 2016 Mars lander
New Mars InSight mission is focused downward and inward, on Mars' core, mantle and crust. It'll even probe Mars' interior.
May 21, 2014
Some sunlike stars eat Earthlike planets
Some sunlike stars are "Earth-eaters." As they form, they ingest large amounts of the rocky material from which planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made.
May 20, 2014
Pacific in 2014 looks like record-breaking El Niño year of 1997
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean continue to suggest that a super strong El Niño might be forming in 2014.
May 20, 2014
Why Saturn has auroras
After a three-year observing campaign of Saturn using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed that auroras on Earth and Saturn have a common origin.
May 19, 2014
This is your brain on meditation
The brain processes more thoughts, feelings during meditation than when you are just relaxing, study shows.
May 16, 2014
Dangerous storms peaking further north, south than in the past, says new study
Powerful, destructive hurricanes and typhoons are now reaching their peak intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to a new analysis.
May 15, 2014
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is smaller than ever before seen
Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anticyclonic storm feature larger than Earth — has shrunken to the smallest size ever measured.
May 15, 2014
