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Searching for shipwrecks from space
A new study uses satellite images to detect ships' watery graves.
March 23, 2016
Kepler catches a supernova shockwave
The planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft caught the earliest minutes of 2 exploding stars and, for the first time, the flash of supernova shockwave in visible light.
March 23, 2016
Dramatic circular outburst from sun
Video of a circular solar outburst observed last week by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
March 22, 2016
February 2016 soars past previous warmth record
February 2016 was the warmest February in 136 years of modern temperature records. Last month deviated more from normal than any month on record.
March 22, 2016
Best view yet inside Mars
Scientists have used fluctuations in the orbits of 3 spacecraft to map Mars' gravity. Thanks to this gravity map, it now seems likely that Mars has a molten core.
March 21, 2016
Getting to know Pluto
After last summer's Pluto flyby, the New Horizons spacecraft started sending data to Earth – at 2 kilobits per second. What scientists have learned so far from that rich, slow cache.
March 21, 2016
Zika virus may affect 50 U.S. cities
Weather, travel, and poverty may facilitate summertime outbreaks of Zika virus in many U.S. cities in summer, 2016, a new study shows.
March 21, 2016
Snapshot of early human ancestors’ lives
Scientists used fossil remains and primitive tools to build a vivid description of what life was like for our early human ancestors, 1.8 million years ago.
March 20, 2016
Small asteroid detected 4 days after passing as close as satellites
On March 15, astronomers detected an asteroid that had passed closest to Earth on March 11, sweeping in at about the distance of our geostationary satellites.
March 18, 2016
Astronomers see black hole raging red
Astronomers have observed violent red flashes, lasting just fractions of a second, during one of the brightest black hole outbursts in recent years.
March 18, 2016
