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Best photos of Venus and Mercury after sunset
Venus and Mercury were closer earlier this month, but they're easier to see now. Don't miss these 2 innermost worlds in our solar system, in the west after sunset.
March 10, 2018
Send your name to the sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe, launching this summer, will travel closer to the sun than any spacecraft yet - and you can send your name along for the ride. Hear about it from William Shatner.
March 8, 2018
Wildfires will likely get worse in western North America
A new study projects increases in burning across the U.S. West and Canada. It suggests large fires - such those we've seen recently in California - may become more common.
March 5, 2018
Almost-real-time map of global fishing
"Until now we didn’t really know where people were fishing in vast swaths of the ocean …"
March 2, 2018
What the flu does to your body
What's going on inside your body that brings such pain and malaise? An immunologist explains why the flu makes you feel so awful.
March 2, 2018
This asteroid will pass closer than the moon on Friday
And you can watch the passage of near-Earth asteroid 2018 DV1, live, on March 2.
March 2, 2018
How naked mole rats stay cancer-free
Another piece in the puzzle of how these wrinkled, hairless, buck-toothed creatures live such long and cancer-free lives.
February 28, 2018
See it! Friday night’s moon and star
People around the world last night caught the moon near the bright star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus the Bull.
February 24, 2018
Mars rover finds possible rock stripes
The long-lived Opportunity Mars rover keeps finding surprises, including these possible stone stripes. On Earth, similar features result from repeated freezing and thawing of wet soil.
February 22, 2018
Amateur astronomer captures a supernova’s 1st light
Supernovae - exploding stars - are unpredictable. But an amateur astronomer in Argentina happened to catch one just as it began to explode. "It's like winning the cosmic lottery," one astronomer said.
February 21, 2018
