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LightSail phones home after 8-day silence
Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye said, "LightSail called home! It’s alive! Our LightSail spacecraft has rebooted itself, just as our engineers predicted."
May 31, 2015
Humans tell whales apart by their voices
Detailed analysis of a particular type of call - known as an upcall - let human researchers single out whales as individuals.
May 30, 2015
Video: 40 hours at Ningaloo Reef
No beach days yet? This wonderful video by Colin Legg lets you spend two days and nights at a reef in Australia.
May 30, 2015
Octopus opens a jar, from the inside
Check out this video. More evidence that octopuses are amazing.
May 30, 2015
New human ancestor found in Ethiopia
According to scientists who made the discovery, the find provides conclusive evidence that, millions of years ago, there was more than one human species.
May 30, 2015
Comet Lovejoy near star Polaris
Comet Lovejoy on May 22, 2015. The comet is the brilliant green dot near the center of the photo. At the upper right of the photo is the star Polaris, aka the North Star.
May 30, 2015
6.7-magnitude earthquake in Alaska
The quake took place 3 a.m. EDT (0700 UTC) Friday morning in the earthquake-prone, sparsely populated Aleutian arc, some 400 miles (600 km) from Anchorage.
May 29, 2015
Fireflies are back, upstate New York
Photo and report from an EarthSky friend who regularly watches for them.
May 28, 2015
Video: Translating climate change to music
Imagine setting global warming to music. That's what a student at University of Minnesota has done, basing his composition on actual temperature data since 1880.
May 27, 2015
Hawaii governor says Thirty Meter Telescope has right to continue
$1.5-billion project halted last month, following demonstrations. Gov. David Ige said to continue, but that one-fourth of telescopes on Mauna Kea should be removed.
May 27, 2015
