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Traffic around Mars gets busy
With five active spacecraft now orbiting the planet, NASA has beefed up its traffic monitoring to make sure the Mars orbiters don't get too close to each other.
May 6, 2015
Warm oceans triggered US Dust Bowl
Ocean hot spots in the Atlantic and Pacific were drivers of the hottest summers on record for the central U.S. in 1934 and 1936, suggest new study.
May 6, 2015
X2 solar flare on May 5
The flare created a pulse of UV radiation and X-rays that caused a strong radio blackout over the Pacific.
May 6, 2015
Nugget Point in New Zealand
"Sometimes you know you are in the right place at the right time. That you are doing what you are meant to be doing. That it all comes together and your heart sings."
May 6, 2015
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter drops nearer moon
Flight controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center completed a maneuver that lowered the spacecraft’s orbit to within 12 miles (20 km) of the moon's South Pole.
May 5, 2015
Scientists measure most distant galaxy yet
Galaxy EGS-zs8-1 sets a new distance record. It's so far away the light we receive left the galaxy over 13 billion years ago, and it is just arriving now.
May 5, 2015
Huge salty aquifer found under Antarctica
Antarctica's Dry Valleys are home to briny lakes at the surface. Now scientists find liquid salt water - possibly containing unknown ecosystems - below ground.
May 5, 2015
What bird song looks like at dawn
A meadowlark sings as dawn breaks at the Ninepipes National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Montana.
May 5, 2015
Dinosaur-killing asteroid caused India’s Deccan Traps?
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago might have mobilized an existing volcanic system, causing vast lava flows.
May 4, 2015
Preserving nature in the Age of Humans
Scientists, philosophers, historians, journalists, agency administrators and activists grapple with what it means to 'save nature' in the Anthropocene.
May 4, 2015
