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Time-lapse video of Meadow Fire in Yosemite
The Meadow fire in Yosemite National Park is still burning, but nearly 100 percent contained now. This video by QT Luong shows the beauty and terror of wildfire.
September 22, 2014
Success! MAVEN spacecraft enters Mars orbit
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft - first spacecraft dedicated to exploring Mars' upper atmosphere - successfully entered orbit on September 21, 2014 at 10:24 p.m. EDT.
September 22, 2014
Comet C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) on September 19
This beautiful comet may be visible with the eye alone around mid-October, but it'll remain much easier to detect using binoculars or a telescope.
September 21, 2014
Supermassive black hole in a galaxy only 300 light-years wide
It's an unlikely object in an improbable place -- a monster black hole lurking inside one of the tiniest galaxies ever known.
September 19, 2014
June through August 2014 hottest ever recorded globally
June through August 2014 is the warmest period recorded since record keeping began in 1880, NOAA says. Also, the warmest August since 1880.
September 19, 2014
Space-based particle detector hints at dark matter
A new and tantalizing hint of mysterious dark matter has been found by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer particle detector aboard the International Space Station.
September 19, 2014
Chimpanzee wars not due to human influence, says study
Lethal aggression is something that chimpanzees naturally do, the study says, regardless of whether human impacts are high or low
September 19, 2014
Why am I the one mosquitos always bite?
Scientists know body odors play a role in who mosquitoes bite most. But they don’t yet completely understand which odors mosquitoes find most attractive.
September 19, 2014
Dawn spacecraft to Ceres recovers after malfunctions
A collision with a high-energy radiation particle may have corrupted software running in Dawn's main computer, and sent the spacecraft into safe mode.
September 18, 2014
Fogbow over Massachusetts
Because of the small size of water droplets in fog, a fogbow might have only very weak colors, or no color at all. Colorless fogbows are sometimes called white rainbows.
September 18, 2014
