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Eleanor Imster
Watch SpaceX Dragon depart ISS Friday
Live coverage Friday of cargo ship's departure from International Space Station. Begins at 5:45 a.m. EDT (9:45 UTC).
August 25, 2016
A new normal for Arctic sea ice?
“A decade ago, this year’s sea ice extent would have set a new record low ...Now, we’re kind of used to these low levels of sea ice – it’s the new normal.”
August 24, 2016
Watch spacewalk live August 19
Two ISS astronauts will perform a spacewalk on Friday. NASA TV's live coverage starts at 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 UTC) and lasts about eight hours.
August 19, 2016
Way-cute googly-eyed stubby squid
It's purple! An underwater research team spotted this guy off the coast of California.
August 17, 2016
Dumbbell nebula
Tom Wildoner got this great shot of the Dumbbell nebula. Also known as Messier 27, it’s in the constellation Vulpecula, about 1,360 light-years away.
August 17, 2016
How sunflowers follow the sun
New research on how sunflowers use their internal circadian clocks to face east in the morning and follow the sun during the day.
August 16, 2016
A smile in the sky
Although it looks like an upside-down rainbow, it's what's called a circumzenithal arc. Katerina Russo captured this in Italy on August 9.
August 13, 2016
The circadian clock in your gut
Our internal circadian clock tells our body when to sleep, wake and eat. New research says that bacteria living in our gut also have their own circadian clocks.
August 12, 2016
Watch a comet plunge toward the sun
In early August, SOHO spacecraft saw this bright sungrazing comet, plunging toward the sun at nearly 1.3 million miles (2.09 million km) per hour.
August 5, 2016
California wildfire from space
For 11 days, the Soberanes fire has been burning near the California coast between Monterey and Big Sur. Here are some satellite views.
August 2, 2016
