Jun 13 New Telescope to Bring Black Holes, Exploding Stars Into Focus Update: 12:58 p.m. ET| The NuSTAR telescope soared into orbit atop a Pegasus XL rocket on Wednesday. You can see the launch here: What heats the sun's outer atmosphere? What makes stars explode? How do black holes influence… Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch Western Fires Continue to Spread as Hundreds More Evacuate The High Park wildfire in Colorado continues to spread, now covering more than 68 square miles. To the south in New Mexico, fire crews are battling huge blazes there as well. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports from Fort Collins, Colo. Continue watching
Jun 11 Watch Colorado, New Mexico Emergency Officials Seek More Help Fighting Wildfires Colorado, New Mexico Emergency Officials Seek More Help Fighting Wildfires… Continue watching
Jun 07 Where Have All the Stars Gone? EmbedVideo(3578, 482, 304); The thrill of gazing into a night sky packed with stars, constellations and a stretch of our Milky Way galaxy is primal and timeless -- and it's become increasingly rare. Skyglow from city… Continue reading
Jun 06 Venus Transit Images Captured in Space For those Earthlings lucky enough to be under cloudless skies during the Venus transit on Tuesday, the planet took the form of a tiny dot gliding across the Sun's Northern hemisphere. (Editor's note: it was a bust at… Continue reading
Jun 06 Venus Transit as Revealed in Space By Jenny Marder For those Earthlings lucky enough to be under cloudless skies during Tuesday's Venus transit, it took the form of a pea-sized dot gliding across the Sun's northern hemisphere. For more perspective, NASA has collected a stunning sampling of images both… Continue reading
Jun 06 The Squid and the Electric Current: Remembering the Work of a Brain Pioneer By Jenny Marder In the late 1940s, Sir Andrew Huxley and Sir Alan Hodgkin teased a nerve cell from an Atlantic squid, placed it into a seawater bath and zapped it with currents. Then, with the data, they built a mathematical model that… Continue reading
Jun 05 Louisiana Fishermen Pioneer Floating Architecture By Saskia de Melker // Raccourci Old River is known as one of the best fishing spots in Point-Coupee Parish, Louisiana. This community of more than 400 homes draws flocks of fishermen who spend days on the water and docks reeling in crappie, bluegill,… Continue reading
Jun 05 Venus Transit: A Planet’s Day in the Sun EmbedVideo(3563, 482, 304); In the 18th century, astronomers used the solar transit of planet Venus to calculate the distance from the Earth to the sun. After the 1882 Venus transit, John Philip Sousa scored a march in… Continue reading