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Take in the beauty of Pluto's frozen north pole canyons
Pluto's north pole shimmers in false color in this New Horizons photo.
The businesswoman running 1,040 miles across 7 deserts for water
When your cause is the future of humanity, sometimes muscle cramps and sore feet cease to matter so much.
By Ariel Bogle
The 'super immunity' of bats is good for them, and potentially good for us
For most people, bats are curious creatures that only venture out as we go to sleep, but they are also something of a medical mystery.
By Ariel Bogle
The Milky Way's cold clouds glow in huge, new cosmic map
The cold Milky Way is shining like a diamond in this new map.
Mysterious burst of radio waves traced to galaxy billions of light-years away
The galaxy it came from was 6 billion light-years away.
Those 2 colliding black holes may have been born in a giant star
The black holes may have been created by the death of a huge star.
This astronaut could take you to the edge of space and back in a balloon
Ron Garan is the new chief pilot at World View.
The real story of that 'music' Apollo 10 astronauts heard at the moon
So, what was that strange music the astronauts heard?
Death Valley, the driest place in North America, is now a sea of yellow flowers
Thanks to record-breaking rains last year, one of Earth's hottest and driest spots is now awash in sea of yellow wildflowers.
By Elizabeth Pierson and Andrew Freedman
Watch this sea snail flutter through the ocean just like a butterfly
The "sea butterfly" is a zooplankton snail that behaves more like an insect, and its movement may pave the way for a fleet tiny underwater robots.
Sea level is now rising at fastest rate in nearly 3,000 years
Human-caused global warming has led to a huge spike in coastal flooding events in the U.S., which may get much worse as the climate warms.
Tropical Cyclone Winston - strongest ever seen in southern hemisphere - hits Fiji
Tropical Cyclone Winston slammed into Fiji as the strongest such storm ever observed in the southern hemisphere, and one of the strongest in the world.
Virgin Galactic still has a long road to recovery, and it's going it alone
Having rolled out its new space ship, Virgin Galactic now faces its biggest test yet.
Richard Branson has big plans for Virgin Galactic beyond space planes
The future of Virgin Galactic is looking... busy.
Virgin Galactic rolls out 'Unity,' its first new space plane since 2014 crash
The private spaceflight company is ready to take to the skies again.
More than 18,300 people applied to be NASA astronauts this year
A record number of people applied to be astronauts this year, just as NASA prepares for the revival of America's crewed spaceflight program.
Fierce Tropical Cyclone Winston threatens to devastate Fiji
Extremely intense Tropical Cyclone Winston is on course to make a direct hit on Fiji's capital this weekend.
U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres to step down
One of the leading figures who helped craft the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change is stepping down from her post.
Virgin Galactic is set to reveal its new space plane Friday
The unveiling of the new SpaceShipTwo signals the beginning of Virgin Galactic's second act after a fatal 2014 accident.
Some asteroids may die before ever reaching the sun
Scientists may have discovered why some asteroids appear to be missing from the cosmic pool.
This Louisiana tribe is now America's first official climate refugees
The Obama administration is paying to relocate a native tribe whose land is sinking beneath the rising seas of the Gulf of Mexico.
Glow of the Big Bang illuminates rare X-ray emitting black hole jet
The light from the Big Bang itself is helping scientists study a black hole in deep space.
El Niño was supposed to bail out parched California, so what happened?
The record El Niño has not bailed California out of its drought woes. If the state doesn't get hit by several storms soon, the situation will grow more dire.
Global warming in overdrive: We just had the hottest January ever recorded
January of 2016 saw the largest temperature anomaly Earth has recorded since at least the late 19th century, NASA found.
Without Scalia, Obama's climate plan may have a better chance of survival
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death makes it more likely that President Obama's global warming plan will be upheld.
