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Kansas had a heat burst on the night of June 3-4
For a few hours around midnight, in Kansas, temperatures suddenly shot up by 10 degrees F. Meteorologists call it a heat burst. Read how it happens.
June 4, 2014
Severe storms blast through central U.S. on Tuesday
More severe weather expected Wednesday through the Ohio/Tennessee Valley region. Damaging wind and large hail. A tornado threat cannot be ruled out.
June 4, 2014
Jupiter and three moon shadows
It's cool when you catch a shadow of one of the large Galilean satellites of Jupiter, moving across Jupiter's cloudtops. Here are three shadows at once, from June 3.
June 4, 2014
NASA has re-scheduled its ‘flying saucer’ test flight
On Tuesday, NASA was going to drop a flying-saucer-shaped vehicle from a helium balloon high above Earth's surface, in preparation for future Mars missions. But the test has been delayed, due to weather.
June 3, 2014
Asteroids that buzz Earth
Cool infographic showing asteroids that will come closest to Earth in the next 200 years.
June 3, 2014
See three planets tonight
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn can all be seen easily on these June evenings.
June 3, 2014
Watch online Tuesday as asteroid passes at moon’s distance
Asteroid 2014 KH39 will pass just outside the moon's distance on Tuesday, June 3, at around 3 p.m. CDT (20 UTC). Watch live via the Virtual Telescope Project.
June 3, 2014
Two planets destined to die as their star expands
You know how our sun will someday swell to a red giant, swallowing the planets Mercury and Venus? These two distant exoplanets will suffer a similar fate.
June 2, 2014
Kepler-10 star system has a mega-Earth!
Astronomers believed a rocky world with 17 times Earth's mass couldn't form. But now they have discovered one.
June 2, 2014
What caused the record Greenland ice melt in summer 2012?
It was hot in summer 2012, but that year also had record wildfires in the N. Hemisphere. Scientists now think soot from the fires helped melt Greenland's ice.
June 2, 2014
