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Eleanor Imster
Waning moon in sunrise colors
Jüri Voit captured this photo Saturday morning - January 21, 2017 - in Kuusalu, Estonia.
January 22, 2017
2016 hottest year for 3rd straight year
NASA and NOAA announced today that 2016 was the hottest year on record globally - and the 3rd year in a row of record warming - continuing a decades-long warming trend.
January 19, 2017
Mars rover examines possible mud cracks
The site on Mars is called Old Soaker. It seems to have cracks, as in a dry lake bed. These may be Curiosity's 1st confirmed mud cracks. If so, they're keys to understanding an ancient, warmer, wetter Mars.
January 19, 2017
Watch soap bubbles freeze
A photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota captured this mesmerizing footage of soap bubbles freezing. It looks like time-lapse but it's actually in real time!
January 18, 2017
See it! First full moon of 2017
In the Northern Hemisphere, the January full moon is sometimes known as the Wolf Moon. Howl at these awesome photos of the January's full moon from EarthSky friends around the world.
January 13, 2017
Watch 2017’s 2nd spacewalk Friday
ISS astronauts will work on a complex upgrade to the station’s power system during the January 13, 2017 spacewalk. Spacewalk begins around 7 a.m. EST (1200 UTC) and is expected to last about 6 hours.
January 13, 2017
Huge iceberg set to break off Antarctica
An iceberg the size of Delaware is set to calve from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf. Only about 12 miles (19 km) still connect the ice chunk to the rest of the continent.
January 11, 2017
Weak La Niña follows potent El Niño
A year ago, the equatorial Pacific was pulsing with heat, due to one of the most intense El Niños on record. But the current La Niña has been relatively quiet.
January 11, 2017
NASA begins new astronaut sleep study
A new NASA study is investigating how different light intensities and spectra can be used to help regulate astronauts' patterns of alertness and sleep.
January 10, 2017
