Whoa! Flash flood footage from Utah

Amazing flash flood footage from Utah, July 16, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Heads up! It’s a month of eclipses

Partial solar eclipse July 13. Total lunar eclipse July 27. Partial solar eclipse August 11.

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.

Heads up on July 2019 total solar eclipse

A 5-minute video from the European Southern Observatory on the 2019 eclipse in South America and the South Pacific. Eclipse map, and more.

Have aliens visited Earth? Question worthy of study, says physicist

About 5 percent of all UFO sightings cannot be easily explained by weather or human technology. A physicist argues that there's compelling evidence to justify serious scientific study and that the skeptics should step aside – for the sake of humanity.

Scientists listen to ocean bubbles

A research team recorded the sound of methane bubbles seeping from the seafloor off the Oregon coast, with the aim of using acoustics to identify – and perhaps measure – this important greenhouse gas in the ocean.