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The Little Red Spot is Jupiter's 3rd-largest anticyclonic storm. Earth-based observers have tracked it for the last 23 years. The Juno spacecraft captured this amazing image.

Deborah Byrd

January 28, 2017

Shark attacks drop to average in 2016

After 2015’s record year, 2016 saw fewer shark attacks worldwide. Here in the U.S., the most happened in Florida.

Eleanor Imster

January 28, 2017

Space station moon

The International Space Station flying in front of the moon on January 14 as seen from the European Space Agency's space science center near Madrid, Spain.

Deborah Byrd

January 28, 2017

Opportunity celebrates 13 years on Mars

Last week, NASA’s rover Opportunity celebrated 13 Earth-years exploring Mars. She's officially a teenager. This new video explains 6 ways she’s behaving like one.

Eleanor Imster

January 27, 2017

Orion, from China’s Great Wall

The link between the constellation we know as Orion the Hunter and the Chinese New Year, celebrated throughout Southeast Asia and the world, and coming in 2017 on January 28.

Deborah Byrd

January 27, 2017

When lava meets sea

Time-lapse of sea and sky shot on Hawaii in December. Watch what happens as lava flow from the Kilauea Volcano meets the ocean.

Eleanor Imster

January 26, 2017

Contrail shadow

Jet contrail shadows appear to be cast by a low-altitude bright light shining upwards. In fact, the light source is the sun, and the shadow is cast downward on clouds below.

Deborah Byrd

January 26, 2017

Early humans wiped out big animals in Australia

A new study suggests that humans, not climate change, were the primary cause of extinction of the huge and astonishing creatures that roamed Australia 45,000 years ago.

Deborah Byrd

January 25, 2017

Extinction threatens 60% of world’s primates

"The majority of primate species are endangered now. We are at a turning point where we must take action or lose many species during the next 50 years."

Eleanor Imster

January 25, 2017