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Your top 3 tips to avoid mosquito bites

Simple things you can do to get fewer mosquito bites this summer.

EarthSky Voices

May 4, 2016

Just 40 light-years away, 3 potentially habitable planets

Earth-like planets aren't exclusively orbiting sunlike stars. Ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 hosts 3 potentially habitable planets.

EarthSky Voices

May 3, 2016

Chernobyl all-time worst nuclear accident

The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. It was far worse than the 2011 Fukushima accident.

EarthSky Voices

April 26, 2016

Top 6 things about gravity

Gravity does far more than make things fall down. It governs the motion of planets around the sun, holds galaxies together and determines the structure of the universe.

EarthSky Voices

April 15, 2016

Another wave of bird extinctions in the Americas?

Several bird species are taking their final bows on the global evolutionary stage, and winking out. The situation in northeast Brazil is particularly dire.

EarthSky Voices

April 11, 2016

Astronomers await pings from troubled Hitomi

An unknown disaster seems to have befallen the Japanese satellite that launched in February. Why X-ray astronomers are anxious for good news.

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April 5, 2016

Watch giant ice bridge collapse

An ice bridge collapsed at Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina earlier this month. Hundreds of tourists and locals gathered to witness the dramatic event.

EarthSky Voices

March 29, 2016

Could our sun emit killer superflare?

Solar eruptions from our sun are nothing compared to eruptions from some other stars - so-called 'superflares'. Two scientists say our sun could also be a superflare star.

EarthSky Voices

March 27, 2016

Getting to know Pluto

After last summer's Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data to Earth – at 2 kilobits per second. What scientists have learned so far from that rich, slow cache.

EarthSky Voices

March 21, 2016