Sign Up for Our Amazing Newsletter!
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Posts by
Eleanor Imster
Dramatic circular outburst from sun
Video of a circular solar outburst observed last week by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
March 22, 2016
February 2016 soars past previous warmth record
February 2016 was the warmest February in 136 years of modern temperature records. Last month deviated more from normal than any month on record.
March 22, 2016
Zika virus may affect 50 U.S. cities
Weather, travel, and poverty may facilitate summertime outbreaks of Zika virus in many U.S. cities in summer, 2016, a new study shows.
March 21, 2016
Unexpected changes in Ceres’ bright spots
Astronomers using a telescope in Chile have seen unexpected daily changes on Ceres' famous bright spots, suggesting they change under the influence of sunlight.
March 16, 2016
Chameleon in amber is world’s oldest
About 100 million years ago, a baby chameleon crawled into some sticky resin. Over time, the resin fossilized into amber, leaving the lizard remarkably preserved.
March 15, 2016
Close comet flyby plunged Mars’ magnetic field into chaos
Comet Siding Spring's close flyby of Mars in October 2014 blew away part of the planet's upper atmosphere, suggest MAVEN spacecraft observations.
March 14, 2016
Lunar shadow moves across Earth
This is way cool. Watch the moon's shadow move across Earth during the March 9 total solar eclipse. A first ever animation from deep space.
March 11, 2016
Dawn at Ceres reveals mystery features
Since Dawn slid into orbit on March 6, 2015, the spacecraft has found at least 2 mysterious features on Ceres - a dome-shaped mountain and the famous bright spots.
March 9, 2016
Dodos weren’t so dumb after all
New research suggests that dodo birds might have been quite intelligent.
March 9, 2016
NASA astronaut returns from year in space
NASA's Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Mikhail Kornienko landed safely in Kazakhstan on March 2. The landing wraps up Kelly's one-year mission aboard the ISS.
March 2, 2016
