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Latest New Horizons images of Pluto
There may be an ice cap at Pluto's pole, as seen in the most recent images from the New Horizons spacecraft, now only 11 weeks from its historic flyby on July 14.
April 29, 2015
Save me from light
An astrophotographer's lament, from the Muriwai hilltops in New Zealand.
April 29, 2015
Russian cargo craft launched Tuesday, spinning out of control
Unpiloted craft carries 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies for International Space Station. Thursday's rendezvous with ISS cancelled. The cargo craft may be lost.
April 28, 2015
Why do global temperature records differ?
NASA, NOAA, and the Japanese Meteorological Agency all publish slightly different global temperature measurements. Why?
April 28, 2015
Dramatic sunsets from Chile’s Calbuco volcano
Unusual sunset colors caused by the eruption of Calbuco volcano, caught by Helio C. Vital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this past weekend.
April 28, 2015
Huge magma reservoir discovered under Yellowstone supervolcano
It's below the magma chamber they knew about before and contains enough hot, partly molten rock to fill the Grand Canyon 11 times over.
April 27, 2015
Dancing tendrils on sun’s northeast limb
Where heliophysics meets art. Video acquired April 24 and 25, 2015.
April 27, 2015
Imagine you are diving, and suddenly …
Amazing video of whales surfacing - open-mouthed - under a diving expedition.
April 27, 2015
Names needed in 20 distant solar systems
Deadline for submissions in the NameExoWorlds contest is June 15, 2015. Fifteen stars and 32 planets (47 objects total) in 20 solar systems available for naming.
April 27, 2015
Carbon from melting permafrost goes back to atmosphere
According to a new study, microbes eat the carbon and release it as CO2, where ends up back in the atmosphere and contributes to further warming.
April 27, 2015
