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1,000-year rainfall hits South Carolina
Roads washed out. People trapped in cars. Seven deaths as of Sunday evening. And it's still raining, but the rain should taper off by Monday night.
October 5, 2015
How close to sending people to Mars?
There's now a target date of 2030 for a manned mission to Mars. But how close are we, really, to becoming Martians?
October 5, 2015
NASA shortlists 5 possible new missions
NASA has announced five investigations for further study in its latest competition for new, relatively small-scale, robotic missions into our solar system.
October 4, 2015
Video lets you imagine Earth breathing
NASA video simulating a massive typhoon spinning toward China, with something extra added. Plus a word about the Gaia hypothesis.
October 4, 2015
Planets, east before dawn, October 2, 2015
Don't miss these bright planets in the east before dawn. They'll perform an intricate dance throughout October, 2015.
October 4, 2015
Stars over Mount Rainier
A beautiful place to see the night sky and contemplate nature's power.
October 3, 2015
Einstein ring helps weigh a black hole
Astronomers have "weighed" only the nearest supermassive black holes. Now, with a gravity lens and Einstein ring, they've weighed one 12 billion light-years away.
October 3, 2015
Sea ice still too thick for Arctic shipping route
Despite climate change, sea ice will continue to make the Northwest Passage too treacherous to be a regular Arctic shipping route for decades, says study.
October 3, 2015
Best yet images of Pluto’s moon Charon
Beautiful and fascinating images from the New Horizons spacecraft reveal the large moon’s violent history.
October 2, 2015
U.S. Southeast braces for floods
U.S. landfall looks increasingly unlikely. "Historical" flooding possible in parts of the U.S. Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.
October 2, 2015
