Project 1640 seeking clues to atmospheres of distant worlds

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"It's like taking a single picture of the Empire State Building from an airplane that reveals a bump on the sidewalk next to it that is as high as an ant."

Deborah Byrd

May 10, 2013

Flattened ring of fire eclipse

Atmospheric distortion caused the sun and moon to look flattened in this image of the May 9-10, 2013 annular solar eclipse.

Deborah Byrd

May 10, 2013

Water on moon, Earth come from the same source

Water inside the moon’s mantle came from primitive meteorites, new research finds, the same source thought to have supplied most of the water on Earth.

Editors of EarthSky

May 9, 2013

Hubble Telescope finds dead stars polluted with planet debris

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place – the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.

Editors of EarthSky

May 9, 2013

View from space: Before and after California’s Springs Fire

Before and after images from NASA Landsat of the Springs Fire in southern California, which began May 2 and was 80% contained by May 6.

Deborah Byrd

May 9, 2013

World’s most extreme hearing animal: It’s a moth

The greater wax moth is capable of sensing sound frequencies of up to 300kHz – the highest recorded frequency sensitivity of any animal in the natural world.

Eleanor Imster

May 9, 2013