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Five see-through animals
These five animals are as transparent as ghosts ... but they're real!
October 28, 2015
Lifeform of the week: Corpse flower
Parasitic flowers of the genus Rafflesia are monstrous in size and diabolical in smell.
October 28, 2015
Watch spacewalk live October 28
Watch two NASA astronauts make their first spacewalk outside ISS today, beginning at 8:10 a.m. EDT (12:10 UTC) until about 2:40 p.m. EDT (18:10 UTC).
October 28, 2015
New Horizons aiming toward next target
On Sunday, the craft that explored Pluto successfully executed the 2nd of 4 maneuvers designed to aim it toward a small Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69.
October 27, 2015
Ice cores confirm colossal solar storms
Evidence that Earth was hit by two solar storms - 10 times larger than those observed recently - 1,000 years ago. If they occurred today, they'd have devastating effects on power supplies, satellites and communications.
October 27, 2015
SOHO’s thousands of doomed comets
SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - is the greatest comet-discoverer of all time. It has found 3,000 comets ... but our sun has destroyed nearly all of them.
October 27, 2015
Life on Earth began 4.1 billion years ago, says study
New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously documented, pushing the origin of life close to when the planet formed.
October 27, 2015
7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan
Hundreds reported dead, with the death toll set to rise. The most severely affected areas are remote. As of late Monday, communications were cut off.
October 26, 2015
Kerberos images complete Pluto family portrait
Images of Pluto's tiny moon Kerberos recently downlinked from New Horizons spacecraft. We now have images of all five Pluto moons.
October 25, 2015
Milky Way photo with 46 billion pixels
It's the largest astronomical image of all time, used by astronomers in the search for distant exoplanets and multiple star systems.
October 25, 2015
