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Extraordinary shot of moon’s far side and Earth, from Chang’e
China’s Chang'e 5 spacecraft rounded the lunar far side earlier this week, on the return leg of its journey to the moon. It's now safely back on Earth.
November 1, 2014
2014 Antarctic ozone hole holds steady
The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual peak size in September. The size of this year’s hole was about the same as last year's.
November 1, 2014
Turquoise-tinted plumes in Large Magellanic Cloud
This image - made with a special filter - shows the outskirts of a much-studied nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, called the Tarantula Nebula.
November 1, 2014
Star system like a wheel within a wheel
Scientists found dust and gas flowing from an outer disk around a star toward a possible second, smaller disk around a second star. Planets may be forming here!
October 31, 2014
Why do we scream?
Despite our fascination with screams, science knows relatively little about them. The psychology of screams ...
October 31, 2014
Ghost light from dead galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago.
October 31, 2014
Night spider
"She waits patiently through the night on her invisible web, stars dimly glowing in the background..."
October 30, 2014
Success in the search for quiet, distant quasars
If quasars weren't so luminous, we couldn't see them so far away in space and time. But how about modest quasars, also far away? Astronomers say they've found some.
October 29, 2014
Ebola is at least 16 million years old, says study
Ebola's first documented outbreak was in 1976. But the Ebola virus family has been around for 16 to 23 million years, says new research.
October 29, 2014
Spectacular explosion at launch for Antares rocket
Watch the NASATV live broadcast of the catastrophic launch failure. The rocket was bound for the International Space Station, loaded with supplies.
October 28, 2014
