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Night thunderstorms: Top things to know
For anyone who's been stirred out of bed in the middle of the night by a clap of thunder: Here's info about those intense storms that happen after the sun sets.
July 27, 2015
6.9-magnitude strikes Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
This region is on the Pacific Ocean's 'ring of fire' - where great land plates meet and one dives beneath another - and so is subject to frequent earthquakes.
July 27, 2015
Latest images of Pluto’s flowing ice
Latest images from NASA's July 14, 2015 flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft, showing evidence of an active surface on Pluto with flowing nitrogen ice.
July 27, 2015
Pulsar punches hole in stellar disk
Two stars in a double system are not playing nice. One star, a pulsar, has punched a hole in the disk of the other, sending debris outward at 7% of light speed!
July 26, 2015
Kepler-452b is older, bigger Earth cousin
The Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone - or zone where liquid water can exist - around a sunlike star.
July 23, 2015
Good news! More sharks!
White shark populations are growing. Here’s why that’s good news.
July 23, 2015
What black holes like to eat
Astronomers have caught a monster black hole in the act of eating a star. But, they say, stars are not standard fare for black holes.
July 23, 2015
More ice mountains in Pluto’s heart
A second range of ice mountains has been found on Pluto, in images from New Horizons.
July 22, 2015
New NASA video on flood prediction
Predicting flooding is notoriously difficult, but predictions are improving. Timely video in light of James Hansen's prediction this week of catastrophic flooding in New York and other coastal cities before the end of this century.
July 22, 2015
