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Eleanor Imster

Look around from Mars rover’s point of view

Here’s what the Curiosity rover is seeing after 7 years on Mars. Curiosity captured this 360-degree interactive panorama on June 18.

Butterfly trio

Crystal Kolb captured these 3 butterflies along a pathway behind her house in Bedford, Pennsylvania, this past Saturday morning.

How do monarch butterflies know when it’s time to migrate?

Overwintering monarch butterflies rely on a temperature-sensitive internal timer to wake them up to make the trip back north, researchers report.

How mosquitoes find us

For mosquitoes, finding the next blood meal is all about smelling and seeing. It's our breath that gives us away.

What does a marsquake feel like?

Quakes look and feel different depending on the material their seismic waves pass through. This new video compares marsquakes to moonquakes and quakes here on Earth.

Ten million stars

When you see it with your unaided eye, Omega Centauri looks like a fuzzy, faint star. But it is, in fact, a collection of 10 million stars.

June 2019 hottest on record for globe

Last month was the planet's hottest June in NOAA's climate record, which dates back to 1880. Also last month, Antarctic sea ice coverage shrank to new record low.

Harbor lightning

Summer lightning over a harbor in Tällberg, Sweden.

Joshua trees facing extinction

They outlived mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. But new research suggests that without dramatic action to reduce climate change, Joshua trees won’t survive much past this century.

Morning moon

Photographer Lee Capps captured this week's morning moon from North Carolina. Thanks, Lee!