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Video of supercell over Wyoming on May 18
Amazing video of a huge supercell that formed outside of Newcastle, Wyoming on Sunday, May 18.
May 22, 2014
Meet star cluster NGC 3590
This star cluster - called NGC 3590 - isn't just pretty. It's also helping astronomers understand the Milky Way galaxy in which our sun and Earth reside.
May 21, 2014
NASA is go for 2016 Mars lander
New Mars InSight mission is focused downward and inward, on Mars' core, mantle and crust. It'll even probe Mars' interior.
May 21, 2014
Antarctica is losing 159 billion tons of land ice every year
This is Antarctic land ice, not sea ice, which in recent years has expanded. The land ice loss is now thought to drive 0.43 millimeters of global sea level rise per year.
May 21, 2014
Scientists: 30 U.S. landmarks at risk from climate change
The non-profit U.S. organization Union of Concerned Scientists this week released a report listing 30 iconic landmarks at risk from climate change.
May 21, 2014
Beautiful solar halo over a building named for a star
The building is a hot water storage tank - containing 26,000,000 liters of water - in Östersund, Sweden. It's named for the star Arcturus in the constellation Bootes.
May 21, 2014
Some sunlike stars eat Earthlike planets
Some sunlike stars are "Earth-eaters." As they form, they ingest large amounts of the rocky material from which planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made.
May 20, 2014
Pacific in 2014 looks like record-breaking El Niño year of 1997
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean continue to suggest that a super strong El Niño might be forming in 2014.
May 20, 2014
What does looking at the night sky feel like?
What does looking at the night sky feel like to you? Art by T. Richardsen in northern Norway offers this conceptual image.
May 20, 2014
Why Saturn has auroras
After a three-year observing campaign of Saturn using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed that auroras on Earth and Saturn have a common origin.
May 19, 2014
