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7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan
Hundreds reported dead, with the death toll set to rise. The most severely affected areas are remote. As of late Monday, communications were cut off.
October 26, 2015
Stars reflecting in the Limfjord
Taken from the island of Mors, in the shallow sound called Limfjorden in Denmark.
October 26, 2015
Kerberos images complete Pluto family portrait
Images of Pluto's tiny moon Kerberos recently downlinked from New Horizons spacecraft. We now have images of all five Pluto moons.
October 25, 2015
Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels
It's the largest astronomical image of all time, used by astronomers in the search for distant exoplanets and multiple star systems.
October 25, 2015
New Hubble views of earliest galaxies
The largest sample yet of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the universe, revealed by Hubble. Some formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang.
October 25, 2015
Hurricane Patricia slams into Mexico
Floods and landslides remain a risk from Patricia - strongest storm yet recorded in the Western Hemisphere. The storm caused less damage than expected. It went from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in just 24 hours.
October 24, 2015
Where did the first dogs come from?
New DNA analysis says your pooch's ancestors were Central Asian wolves
October 23, 2015
See it! Orionid meteor shower photos 2015
The peak of the 2015 Orionid meteor shower has passed now. Here are some awesome photos from the Earthsky community!
October 22, 2015
2015 Antarctic sea ice extent
For the past three years, Antarctic sea ice at maximum set records. This year, that didn't happen, and a sea ice scientist called it "a return toward normalcy."
October 22, 2015
Astronomers find dead star destroying a planet
"This is something no human has seen before," said astronomer Andrew Vanderburg "We're watching a solar system being destroyed."
October 21, 2015
