Watch online as asteroid sweeps within moon’s distance today

Watch online as asteroid 2014 DX110 sweep closer than the moon on Wednesday, March 5.

Watch March come in like a lion over eastern U.S.

Satellite video captures the awesome power of the winter storms that hit the eastern U.S. on the first days of March.

Rising seas threaten world cultural sites, says study

Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall, Tower of London and Sydney Opera House are among sites that could be lost to rising seas if current global warming trend continues.

Horses found competing with endangered pandas for bamboo

At the Wolong Nature Reserve for endangered pandas, horses belonging to farmers were found grazing on bamboo, the pandas' only food source.

Rocket launched straight into aurora

A NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an aurora over Venetie, Alaska, on March 3, 2014.

Did first Americans live thousands of years on Bering Land Bridge?

A flurry of studies suggests that this lost world could have been an ice age haven, dotted with game and wildflowers, for both animals and humans.

Phone app measures night sky brightness

Help scientists create a global map of night sky brightness with the Dark Sky Meter app on your smartphone.

Listen to the whales of the Bering Strait

The Arctic is home to a growing number of whales and ships, and to populations of sub-Arctic whales that are expanding their territory into newly ice-free Arctic waters.

Major winter storm poised to wallop U.S. Mid-Atlantic

Large amounts of snow to cities including Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. area on March 2 and 3, according to NOAA's National Weather Service.

Video: How wolves change rivers

Do yourself a favor and watch this video on how wolves change rivers. It will make you happy.

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