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Perseid meteors versus the supermoon
Which is brighter - Perseid fireballs or a supermoon? You'll find out as the year's biggest, brightest full moon arrives as Perseid meteor shower starts to peak.
August 10, 2014
Weak supernova might have left zombie star
Astronomers used Hubble Space Telescope images to spot a star system that could have left behind a "zombie star" after an unusually weak supernova explosion.
August 9, 2014
Astronomers watch as storms swirl on distant Uranus
Uranus - the sideways planet - has a weird spin and the strangest seasons of any of our solar system's planets. Astronomers called this week's storms "surprising."
August 9, 2014
Waxing toward a supermoon, with rainbow
Kimmie Randall caught this photo of Thursday night's gibbous moon, waxing toward the supermoon ... with a portion of a rainbow. Beautiful!
August 9, 2014
Iselle and Julio deliver one-two punch to Hawaii
More than 800 people on the Big Island went into evacuation shelters Thursday. Storm surges, high winds, downed trees and power lines, loss of electricity, blocked highways.
August 8, 2014
Five fun physics tricks
Check out - and try - five fun physics tricks. Can you figure out the physics behind these phenomena?
August 7, 2014
California fire clouds
Fires raging over California last week created these towering pyrocumulus clouds - aka "fire clouds." A close look from jets flying nearby.
August 7, 2014
Rosetta’s rendezvous with a comet
The Rosetta spacecraft has succeessfully completed its historic approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and is now traveling in tandem with the comet.
August 7, 2014
