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Biggest ever US methane leak from California blowout
The Aliso Canyon leak, finally plugged on February 11, vented 100,000 tons of methane into the atmosphere - a climate impact equivalent to the annual emissions of half a million cars, say scientists.
March 1, 2016
Cockroach egg impressions from 4,300 years ago
More information about early human settlements - and in this case the insects who lived alongside them - is being found in ancient bits of broken pottery.
March 1, 2016
Simplified calendar and no time zones?
In the Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar, there are no leap years and Christmas always falls on a Monday. Plus, it’s the same time everywhere on Earth.
February 29, 2016
Leap babies
If you’re born on a leap day, do you have birthdays only once every four years?
February 28, 2016
Record number of NASA astronaut applications
More than 18,300 people applied to join NASA’s 2017 astronaut class - almost three times the number received in 2012.
February 19, 2016
Plastics in ocean harm oysters
Ground-breaking data on a negative effect on oysters from microplastics, which enter our oceans via cosmetics, clothing, and industrial processes.
February 18, 2016
Space rocks from Florida fireball found!
A rare find by meteorite hunters in Florida, from the daylight meteor that streaked across skies in the U.S. southeast in late January.
February 16, 2016
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
