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New Pluto images wow scientists
These latest Pluto images from New Horizons have scientists stunned, says NASA. It’s not just the breathtaking views, but the strangely familiar, arctic look.
September 18, 2015
India’s monsoon not bringing enough rain
“Right now, the monsoon is 12 percent below average and dropping, and [India is] headed for a pretty serious dry season,” said a researcher.
September 17, 2015
Video: The solar system to scale
Beautiful short film depicting what happened when a group of friends built a scale model of the solar system on a dry lakebed in Nevada.
September 17, 2015
SOHO discovers its 3000th comet
Before its 1995 launch, no one knew what a spectacular comet finder the SOHO spacecraft would be. It excels at spotting sungrazers, comets sweeping near the sun.
September 17, 2015
Powerful earthquakes off Chile’s coast
At least five people killed and 1 million evacuated, after a powerful 8.3-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Chile last night. Tsunami waves and many strong aftershocks followed. Tsunami advisory for California and Hawaii.
September 17, 2015
Video: This year’s El Niño compared to 1997-98
Wow! Check out this visual comparison of the emerging El Niño with the record-breaking El Niño of 1997-98, which created weather extremes around the globe.
September 17, 2015
Researchers find double crater in Sweden
They are evidence of two enormous meteorite impacts, a twin strike that happened around 460 million years ago.
September 17, 2015
2015 Arctic sea ice minimum 4th lowest
The 2015 Arctic sea ice minimum summertime extent is the 4th lowest since observations from space began, according to a NASA analysis of satellite data.
September 15, 2015
No nearby advanced civilizations, astronomer says
Following the July announcement of a big new SETI initiative, a Netherlands astronomer says advanced civilizations are rare or absent from the local universe.
September 15, 2015
LHC creates liquid from Big Bang
Scientists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have produced tiny droplets of a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe.
September 15, 2015
