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Amazing Kilauea volcano imagery you might have missed
For more than 2 months, lava has been pouring from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, destroying homes and remaking the land. A compilation of photos and videos, here.
July 22, 2018
Apollo and the moon-landing hoax
Why do people persist in denying that human beings landed on the moon?
July 20, 2018
Is the moon toxic to humans?
When the Apollo astronauts returned from the moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive particles, but how toxic is it for humans?
July 20, 2018
Whoa! Flash flood footage from Utah
Amazing flash flood footage from Utah, July 16, 2018.
July 17, 2018
Ghostly neutrino caught in South Pole ice ushers in a new astronomy
Last week, scientists announced the 1st known source for ghostly, high-energy neutrinos. The source is a blazar, a billion-solar-mass black hole 3.7 billion light-years away. The discovery establishes a new way to study the universe.
July 15, 2018
Scared yet? 2018 has 2 Friday 13ths
This Friday the 13th comes exactly 13 weeks after 2018's first Friday the 13th, in April. The whats, whens and whys of Friday the 13th.
July 13, 2018
From Pluto, Earth to transit sun on July 12
Earth transits seen from Pluto are rare. The last one happened in 1931, a year after Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. It won't happen again for 161 years.
July 12, 2018
Pluto: Preparing for the perfect alignment
Here's how and why astronomers plan to aim the Hubble Space Telescope and several ground-based telescopes toward Pluto around the July 12 Earth transit.
July 12, 2018
Heads up! It’s a month of eclipses
Partial solar eclipse July 13. Total lunar eclipse July 27. Partial solar eclipse August 11.
July 11, 2018
Fragments of asteroid 2018 LA found in Botswana
Astronomers detected a small asteroid just 8 hours before it struck Earth's atmosphere over southern Africa on June 2, producing a terrific explosion. A few days later, researchers reported finding its meteorites.
July 9, 2018
