Sign Up for Our Amazing Newsletter!
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Why Super Typhoon Haiyan was so powerful
Low wind shear and warm ocean temperatures exist in the Pacific now. That's why Haiyan grew into one of the strongest - perhaps the strongest - storm ever recorded.
November 8, 2013
Bent trees on the shores of Lake Michigan
Ken Scott was hiking at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, in Michigan, when he came upon these bent trees.
November 6, 2013
Four comets in one night
"Four comets in one night - an opportunity too rare to be missed." - Zlatan Merakov
November 5, 2013
Eclipse day Sunday, November 3
Beautiful photos of Sunday's eclipse - November 3, 2013 - taken from an eclipse-chasing airplane at 43,000 feet over the Atlantic.
November 3, 2013
Great Smokey Mountains
Great Smokey Mountain National Park as captured by Manish Mamtani Photography in October, 2013.
November 1, 2013
A galaxy called Mirach’s Ghost
The bright star here is Beta Andromedae, aka Mirach. Look closely, and you'll also see Mirach's Ghost, a faint galaxy, in the upper right of the photo.
October 31, 2013
Russian missile contrail
A Russian missile contrail yanked back and forth by winds at different heights of our atmosphere.
October 30, 2013
Heat from the lava flows at Klyuchevskaya
A recently released NASA image of the ongoing 2013 eruption at Klyuchevskaya, one of Russia’s tallest and most active volcanoes.
October 29, 2013
Our sun for one year
Composite image of a year of activity on our solar system's star, the sun.
October 27, 2013
Planet Mars in front of Leo
Looking for Mars? You'll find it in the east before dawn, in front of the constellation Leo the Lion.
October 26, 2013
