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Intense rainbow over Northern Ireland
Glenn Miles sat in his truck and waited out a rainstorm, then captured the most intense rainbow he'd ever seen.
August 19, 2014
The risk of an exploding glacier is heating up in Iceland
Icelandic Meteorology Office closely monitoring Bárðarbunga, a volcano more than 2,000 meters in elevation, located beneath the country’s largest glacier. Aviation code now back down to orange.
August 18, 2014
2014 Gulf of Mexico dead zone has grown to 5,052 square miles
Scientists head out to the Gulf of Mexico every summer to measure the size of the dead zone—an area with oxygen levels that are too low to support most marine life.
August 18, 2014
Video: Our Curiosity
A video love letter to the Curiosity rover on Mars, narrated by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Felicia Day.
August 18, 2014
Exploring the Trifid Nebula
It's a stellar nursery, a cluster of young stars, a bright red emission nebula, a lovely blue reflection nebula, and an interesting dark nebula divided into three …
August 18, 2014
Great Venus and Jupiter conjunction of 2014
Venus and Jupiter are the brightest planets! Look east before dawn ... closest planet-planet conjunction of 2014 August 18. Dazzling near moon August 22 and 23.
August 18, 2014
Awesomeness from the International Space Station
What would it be like to view the Earth and the sky from the vantage point of the International Space Station? These three photos from ISS tell the tale.
August 17, 2014
New video of Pluto and giant moon Charon
NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft created this new video of stills taken of the Pluto-Charon system over five days last month.
August 16, 2014
Pemaquid Point lighthouse and Milky Way
The historic Maine lighthouse against the gorgeous backdrop of the Milky Way, by Manish Mamtani Photography.
August 15, 2014
First dust grains from beyond our solar system
A collector dropped to Earth by the Stardust spacecraft may have contained the first known contemporary dust grains from outside our solar system.
August 14, 2014
