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Eleanor Imster
Beautiful, enormous moon halo
Ring around the moon over Horsham, Australia on April 13, 2016. Photo by Lynton Brown.
April 14, 2016
Gulf of Mexico dolphin deaths likely due to oil
Study finds higher rate of illness and death in newborns and juvenile bottlenose dolphins after Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
April 12, 2016
Kepler is OK! Spacecraft recovered from emergency
Kepler mission engineers still aren’t sure why the planet-hunting spacecraft went into Emergency Mode last week.
April 12, 2016
Supermassive black holes everywhere?
A near-record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe suggests these monster objects might be more common than once thought.
April 9, 2016
This ancient arthropod kept its babies on a leash
Scientists have discovered a tiny 430-million-year-old sea creature - dubbed Kite Runner - that apparently dragged its offspring around on strings like kites.
April 7, 2016
California drought now the norm?
California drought patterns have occurred much more frequently in recent decades, says a new study.
April 6, 2016
Amazing moons of our solar system
Yes, we're eager to explore the other planets in our solar system. But their moons might be even more interesting ...
April 5, 2016
Beauty of the northern lights
Gorgeous 5-minute video of the northern lights in February and March 2016 - captured in still images, panoramas, time-lapse and real-time videos.
March 29, 2016
Extinctions without a fossil trace?
Many species now going extinct might vanish without a fossil trace, suggests a new study.
March 25, 2016
Solar storms ignite Jupiter’s auroras
For the first time, Jupiter’s auroras have been studied in X-ray light when a giant solar storm arrived at the planet.
March 24, 2016
