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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
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
Success! A final flawless burn. Rosetta now in tandem with its comet
Look here for a fascinating history in pictures and words of the Rosetta spacecraft's historic approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
August 6, 2014
Horses communicate with expressive eyes and mobile ears
Do you think horses have expressive eyes? They do, say researchers, and they also have expressive ears.
August 5, 2014
Worst of the Gulf oil spill toxins still remain, research finds
Bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico consumed many of the oil toxins released during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, but not the most toxic, says new research.
August 5, 2014
Saturn kisses the dark edge of the moon
Astrophotographer Colin Legg in Western Australia caught the August 4, 2014 occultation of Saturn by the moon. He called it "a brilliant thing to watch."
August 5, 2014
For two weeks last August, all hell broke loose on Jupiter’s moon Io
The energy emitted by these volcanic eruptions implies lava fountains gushing at a huge volume per second, forming lava flows that quickly spread over Io's surface.
August 4, 2014
Two views from space: California reservoirs drying up
Look at the difference in these two reservoirs north of Fresno, California, in contrasting satellite images from 2011 and 2014.
August 4, 2014
