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Eleanor Imster
Eta Aquariid meteor over Indonesia’s Mount Bromo
Eta Aquariid meteors and the Milky Way over Mount Bromo.
May 12, 2019
Was moon created from proto-Earth magma?
A new study suggests that our moon formed from a splash of magma when a large object crashed into a proto-Earth covered in a fiery ocean.
May 9, 2019
Two airplane glories, half a world apart
Liz Dunster caught a photo of an airplane glory during a flight over North Carolina. Karthik Easvur caught a glory over India and provided a video!
May 9, 2019
Researchers find water in samples from asteroid
Researchers have discovered water in tiny dust particles from asteroid Itokawa. Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft brought the asteroid dust to Earth in 2010.
May 8, 2019
The strangest crab that has ever lived
Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs. It's a 95-million-year-old extinct species that, scientists say, will force us to rethink the definition of a crab.
May 7, 2019
Researchers find icy corridor on Saturn’s giant moon
While searching for the source of methane on Saturn's large moon Titan, researchers found a completely unexpected corridor of methane ice wrapping nearly halfway around the moon.
May 5, 2019
Insight lander captures sunrises, sunsets on Mars
Sunrises and sunsets on Mars, captured by the camera on NASA's InSight lander.
May 5, 2019
Storm cell over Australia
Photographer Lynton Brown captured this magnificent storm cloud over Horsham, Australia, in the late afternoon of May 1.
May 4, 2019
Space rock hit moon at 38,000 mph
It was a flash of light seen on the edge of moon during the total lunar eclipse of January 20-21, 2019. Now astronomers have analyzed this meteor strike, the first ever filmed during an eclipse.
May 2, 2019
