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Eleanor Imster
Kepler confirms 1,284 new planets
The announcement more than doubles Kepler's confirmed exoplanets and suggests that, somewhere out there, we'll discover another Earth.
May 11, 2016
Watch SpaceX Dragon depart ISS May 11
The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, carrying valuable science research, will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) and return to Earth. Watch it live.
May 10, 2016
Why Planet 9 shouldn’t exist
Earlier this year, scientists presented evidence for a Planet Nine in the far outer solar system. Scientists think it exists, but - if so - how did it get there?
May 9, 2016
Study: Widespread loss of ocean oxygen by 2030s
These scientists said that, as our warming climate saps the ocean of oxygen, marine life like fish, crabs, squid, and sea stars could be left struggling to breathe.
May 6, 2016
First light over Norway’s island Senja
First light of the morning and a perfectly still lake, just north of the Arctic Circle.
May 6, 2016
Clouds over White Lake Channel
On May 2, 2016, Walter E. Elliot took this shot of clouds rolling over the channel that connects Michigan's White Lake to Lake Michigan. Doesn't it look like an oil painting?
May 5, 2016
Earth might be home to a trillion species
Largest-ever analysis of microbial data concludes that 99.999 percent of species remain undiscovered.
May 3, 2016
Inhospitable Danakil Depression hosts extreme life
It's below sea level, with near-boiling water bubbling up from underground, high salt concentrations and toxic vapor. Yet life survives here.
May 2, 2016
Criss-crossed Saturn rings?
Saturn's rings appear to be intersecting in an impossible way. But - in this new Cassini spacecraft image - we're really just seeing a play of light and shadow.
May 1, 2016
Hailstorm over Cambridgeshire, UK
Andy Howard said, "We don't often see such contrast in the sky, but this we had to stop and snap on the iPhone."
May 1, 2016
