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Chelyabinsk meteor mystery 3 years later
It's been 3 years since the dazzling fireball over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and its aftereffects in 6 Russian cities. Yet scientists still don't know its origin.
February 15, 2016
Cool video on astrophotography workshop
Landscape photographer Mike Mezeul II leads a nighttime photography workshop under the dazzlingly dark skies of Big Bend National Park, in Texas.
February 15, 2016
Gravitational waves’ new window on cosmos
Why are scientists so excited about the first-ever detection of gravitational waves? Deborah Byrd reports on this episode of EarthSky News.
February 11, 2016
Lightning strikes, seen from ISS
Is this cool or what? Time-lapse video from International Space Station astronaut Tim Peake.
February 10, 2016
The politico-economics of King Corn
Scott Fausti talks with EarthSky's Ben Duval about the potential future of corn agriculture and its implications for environmental sustainability.
February 3, 2016
Watch cosmonauts’ spacewalk today
NASA TV will broadcast live coverage of a 5.5-hour spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts aboard ISS beginning at 7:30 a.m. ET (1230 UTC) Wednesday.
February 3, 2016
Fungi survive Martian conditions on ISS
Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions after being strapped on the outside of the International Space Station for 18 months.
February 1, 2016
And now … a real ISS transit of Saturn
A fake image ran in APOD a few days ago, but this video of an International Space Station transit across the face of Saturn looks real.
January 26, 2016
Magnitude-7.1 earthquake in Alaska
There were no reports of injuries, but the powerful earthquake left a fair amount of cleanup to do, plus some frightened people in Alaska.
January 24, 2016
2015 hottest year on record, by far
"What we have seen this past year will likely be routine in about 15 years, although regionally the details will vary considerably," says climate expert Kevin Trenberth.
January 23, 2016
