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View from space: Washington landslide
Before and after satellite images of the March 22 landslide near Oso, Washington
March 27, 2014
Miss the moon and Venus this morning? Photos here
Photos from friends around the world of the March 27 and March 28 pairing of the moon with Venus. Thank you, everyone, for posting!
March 27, 2014
MoonDay
The waning crescent moon on the morning of March 26, by VegaStar Carpentier Photography.
March 27, 2014
Theory suggests source of white dwarf pollution … and ominous fate for Earth
A new theory, advanced to explain how the atmospheres of collapsed stars become polluted, points to ominous fate awaiting planet Earth.
March 26, 2014
Astronomers discover first asteroid with rings
This is the smallest object by far found to have rings and only the fifth body in the solar system - after planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - to have rings.
March 26, 2014
New solar system edge and speculations on an undiscovered planet
The new most-distant object in our solar system is 2012 VP113, whose closest point to the sun is about 80 times the Earth-sun distance.
March 26, 2014
Video: Smart crow!
A BBC production shows a crow solving an 8-step puzzle to get food.
March 26, 2014
World’s first robotic planet hunter
Every night, the Automated Planet Finder checks the weather, decides which stars to observe, and moves the telescope from star to star, looking for distant planets.
March 26, 2014
When the moon sweeps past Venus
This image is from a year ago. But if you look in the eastern, predawn sky around now, you'll see the moon near Venus again.
March 26, 2014
Researchers can now reconstruct your memory of someone’s face
“It is a form of mind reading,” said Marvin Chun, professor of psychology, cognitive science and neurobiology and an author of the paper in the journal Neuroimage.
March 25, 2014
