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A new island turns two
Two years ago, during a volcanic eruption, a new island was born in the Pacific. It ultimately swallowed its neighbor. Before and after images from space, here.
December 3, 2015
EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd
All the news you can fit into outer space with LIVE on Slooh.com Wednesdays at 11 a.m. ET (1600 UTC). Or watch right here!
December 2, 2015
Your dog’s spit holds clues for human mental health
Enroll your dog in Darwin’s Dogs, and researchers will send you an easy-to-use kit to collect a doggy saliva sample for DNA analysis. Results will help unravel connections between genes and behavior – for dogs and humans.
December 2, 2015
Ice loss benefits Adélie penguins, for now
Over the past 14,000 years, penguin numbers in East Antarctica increased 135-fold because of disappearing glaciers and sea ice. How long can populations keep growing?
December 2, 2015
Small Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae
Two objects visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere: An irregular dwarf galaxy near our Milky Way, and the second-brightest globular cluster in the sky.
December 2, 2015
New most distant object in solar system
More than 100 times farther from the sun than Earth, this object has been designated V774104. It's fueling speculation about a Planet X.
December 1, 2015
Lifeform of the week: Horseshoe crab
If the horseshoe crab looks like it comes from another era, that's because it does.
December 1, 2015
Wisdom is back again!
Wisdom - world’s oldest living, banded, wild bird - has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. She's 64 years old and a symbol of hope and inspiration.
November 30, 2015
Army ants build living bridges
If a gap interrupts a swarm of army ants, they build a 'living bridge' using their own bodies. How? New research says ants perform a collective computation.
November 30, 2015
Bumping up against a parallel universe
An analysis of the cosmic microwave background revealed bright spots, possible imprints left when an alternate universe bumped ours shortly after the Big Bang.
November 30, 2015
