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Low-Down Dirty Deniers
Time-Lapse: Orbit
Massive Storms Erupting on Uranus
Slowing for Mars
New Horizons Sees Pluto and Charon in Motion!
Here’s What a Comet Looks Like When You’re Close Enough to Touch It
One Picture, My Three Favorite Sciences
Rosetta Arrives at a Comet!
A Nurse’s Journey Away From Anti-Vax
Rosetta: 234 Kilometers and Closing!
Time-Lapse: Kings Canyon
Another Head-Exploding Illusion: Rotating Rings
Red Rainbow
NASA’s Quantum Drive: Cool Your Jets
Contributing Tributaries
Rosetta: 1,000 Kilometers and Closing
Greetings, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Mesocyclone or Mothership?
The 2012 Solar Disaster That Almost Was
50 Years Ago Today, Ranger 7 Took a Lunar Death-Dive
2,000 Kilometers to Go
A Weird Angle on a Weird Crater
James Inhofe Slammed on Global Warming
Geysers on Enceladus Run Deep and Are Powered by Saturn Itself
Noctilucent Clouds … Frooooom Spaaaaaace!
The Littlest Victims of Anti-Science Rhetoric
Phobos’ Googly-Eyed Transit
Poisoned Planet
The Glory of Guadalupe
How the Universe Works: Season 3
Space Rocks for Two Science Promoters
WANT Part XX: Hubble Lego Edition
What Is This Mystery Object in an Astronaut’s Photo?
Rocketcam Video of the SpaceX Falcon Booster Splashing Down in the Atlantic
My 2014 Comic-Con Schedule
The Longest Year
Another Mind-Crushing Illusion: Straight or Curved Motion?
Plunging Deep Into Colliding Galaxies
Go Forth and Science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Still Fighting the Wrong Fight
From the Earth to the Moon to the Earth
Cruisin’ Over the Bahamas
Cosmic Duckie, You’re the One ...
The Chaotic Glory of Starbirth
Jovian Armageddon +20
How Did the Bald Eagle Nebula Hatch?
What’s the Quicker Solar Weight Loss Plan: Solar Wind, or Nuclear Fusion?
Zzzzzzzap! And Whooooosh!
… And Robin Laid an Egg
Royal Greenwich Observatory’s Astrophotographer of the Year Contest
NASA Launches a New Eye on Carbon Dioxide
The View Is Getting Clearer
Noctilucent Clouds Over the London Eye
Typhoon Neoguri Takes Aim on Japan
Climate Change Is a Threat to National Security
Two Big Rocks Pass in the Night
Stop Giving Airtime to Crackpots
When the Moon Met Mars
Putin Their Money Where Their Mouth Is
Arthur Comes Ashore
Red, White, and Blue Comet
Liquid Light Show
Doomed Stars May Test Einstein’s Relativity
Why Do We Have a Two-Faced Moon?
Ten Years at Saturn: Cassini’s 10 Greatest Pictures
Con Artist
Sterling Arc-er
If You Get Caught Between the Moon and New York City
Near-Earth Asteroid Gets Checked by Radar
The Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Is Getting Longer
Beyond Pluto: Hubble Will Be Used to Map Out a New Target for New Horizons
Deniers Gonna Deny
Today Is International SUNday
The Timey Wimey Spacey Wacey Explanation of Relativity
It’s a Falcon! Run, Cows, Run!
Satellite Photo of Embattled Iraqi Oil Refinery on Fire
Time-lapse: Planetary Panoramas
Creationism Isn’t Science, and Shouldn’t Be Taught That Way
Senate Boosts NASA Budget, But at What Cost?
The Writing’s on the Wall
Danke Schön
Walking the Vaccinated Walk
Tropical Cyclone Cristina From Space
President Obama Slams Global Warming Deniers
Time-Lapse: Swedish Sunset
The Two Faces of a Weird Saturn Moon
Follow-up: Full Moons, Leap Days, and Friday the 13th
A Spooky Friday the 13th Full Moon ... Or Is It?
A Blast From the Past
With Friends Like These …
The Smallest Star
A Gorgeous (Non-Polar) Vortex
A Cosmic Tadpole … in More Ways Than One
“The Soft Landing Is Not Really Soft”
The Universe Around Your Neck
Arecibo Pings a Comet
The House Passes FY 2015 NASA Budget
Weaving Saturn’s E Ring
The Daily Show and the Anti-Vaxxers
SPHERE Takes a Look at a Forming Planetary System
Hubble’s Colorful Candy-Striped Universe
Astronomers Find a New Type of Exoplanet: “Mega Earth”
President Obama’s Mandate on Global Warming
The Best Illusions of the Year
Unvaccinated People Cause a 20-Year High in U.S. Measles Cases
SpaceX Reveals Its New Dragon Space Capsule
Birth of a Supercell
Unicorn Chaser: Two Cyclones off the Coast of Alaska
No, an Asteroid Is Not Going to Wipe Out All Life on Earth in 2041
#YesAllWomen
Red Swan
Martians Moons Jockey for Position
Camelopardalididn’ts
Xkcd and TED
Camelopardalids!
Brand New Crater on Mars Revealed by Before-and-After Pictures
Blue Skies Smiling on … Saturn?
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Is Shrinking
Antarctica Losing Ice Even Faster Than Before
We May Get a Major Meteor Shower on Friday May 23-24
Time-Lapse: Spinning Up a Supercell Over Wyoming
Sunset Rocket Launch Casts a Long Shadow
What If … the Moon Orbited at the Same Height as the ISS?
The Moon Eats and Disgorges Saturn
Saturn and Satyr
My God. It’s Full of Stars!
Rosetta’s Comet Wakes Up
Fossilized Thinking in South Carolina
A Hex on Neptune
I AM the Quiz-O-Tron CHAMPION!!!
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Threatens to Pull Out of ISS
Watch Astronauts Come Back to Earth—Live!
Time-Lapse: YIKÁÍSDÁHÁ
West Antarctic Glacier Slow-Speed Collapse May Be Unstoppable
What If Saturn Paid Us a Very Close Visit?
Islands Awake!
The Sky on Fire: “Technicolour Alaska”
Lake of Fire, Galaxy of Stars
The Utter Predictability of Climate Change Denial
Earthrise
The Earth From Space ... LIVE!
Double Rainbow, What DoeszZZZZZZZZTTT!
The Heat Is On: In the U.S., Climate Change Is Here and Now and the Future
NASA Funding Update
Cassini Spies Another Pale Blue Dot
Carbon Dioxide in Our Air Hits an All-Time High
SpaceX: Test Flight and a Lawsuit
Just How Thin Are Saturn’s Rings?
Colbert and the Anti-Vaxxers
Dr. Oz and the High Irony Diet
Bruce Woodgate
Day of the Exoplanet
Meteor Over ALMA
You Light Up My Gas
Cloud Fingers
The Eye of Sauron Appears Over Sweden
Astronomer Finds a Brown Dwarf Literally as Cold as Ice … and It’s Right
Next Door
Two Asteroids Seen … From Mars!
Global Vaccination Week: Are You Up to Date?
For Hubble’s 24th Birthday: A Stellar Nursery Being Destroyed by the Stars
It Created
Hubble Drills Deep Into the Universe
Black Skies, Smiling at Me
10 Planetary Facts for Earth Day 2014
Slate Plus You
A Dragon Chases the Space Station
Happy Easter SUN Day!
That’s No Moon … Well, Actually, Yeah It Is
Incredible: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Video Taken From the Ground!
SpaceX Launch Update: Next Attempt Is Today at 19:25 UTC
An Astronomical Discovery: Earth-Size Planet Found in Its Star’s Habitable
Zone
Look! It’s a Car on Mars!
Watch and/or Hear Me Speak at You About Things
What Happens When You Throw a Peep Out an Airlock?
Blood Moon: The Lunar Eclipse of April 2014
Cassini May Have Witnessed the Birth of a New Saturn Moon!
Science Ranch 2014: A Few Spots Left
No, Scientists Have NOT Found Life in a Meteorite. Again.
Watch the SpaceX Launch Live Today at 20:58 UTC
Jenny McCarthy: “I’m Not ‘Anti-Vaccine’”
Don’t Miss the Lunar Eclipse on April 14–15!
The Perils of the Skeptic Journalist
The Beauty of the Mundane
Bambi Versus the Space Alien
Mars at Its Best Right Now
Chili’s Reception: Restaurant Cancels Event With Anti-Vax Group
(Final) Follow-Up: Yup. It Was a Rock.
No, That’s NOT an Artificial Light on Mars
The Principle: A Documentary About Geocentrism. Yeah, I Know.
“Our National Debate About Climate Policy Is Broken”
Follow-Up: The Meteorite and the Skydiver
A Snail’s Pace Change in Cassini Reveals an Ocean Under Enceladus
A New Volcanic Island Swallows Its Older Sister
Did a Skydiver Almost Get Hit by a Meteorite? (Video.)
… But Does a Fire Tornado in Australia Spin the Other Way?
Fly Into Hubble’s Universe!
Flash of Illumination
The Man Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mass Extinction Event
Return of (DUN DUN DUNNNN) the Chaos Cloud: The Chaosening
What’s Shakin’? L.A. Earthquakes Don’t Foretell the "Big One” This
Time
“There Is No Question That We Live in a World Already Altered by Climate
Change.”
A Vortex of Fire. Bonus: Tumbleweedocalypse.
Faint Rings and Crescent Planet
Years of Living Dangerously
No, April 4, 2014, is NOT “Zero G Day.” No.
A New Ring System Found in the Solar System ... Around an Asteroid!
Cool Discovery: Another Incredibly Distant Member of the Solar System
Spectacular Video: The Sky on Fire
ISS-Above Tells You When, Um, the ISS Is Above
Spinning Up a Nearby Galaxy
The Philip J. Klass Award for 2013
This Old Earth Is Warming Up
Wind-Blown Ice Creates Frigid Fingers Over Lake Michigan
Meme, Myself, and Eyes
Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs? Probably Not. But It’s a Fun idea.
Happy Vernality!
AAAS "What We Know" About Global Warming Campaign
Explore a 680 Gigapixel Map of the Moon’s North Pole
More Wins for Reality: Trudeau Headed for Jail; Anti-Vax Group Not a Charity
Descent of the White Stork
Inflated Timescales
Cosmic News: Astronomers Find the Twisted Fingerprints of Inflation in the
Background Glow of the Universe
Jenny McCarthy Asks; the Internet Slam Dunks
The Impact of Citizen Science
No, Asteroid 2003 QQ47 Is NOT Going to Hit the Earth Next Week
Is It Time to Throw Out π? (No)
Wyoming Gives Science Education the Cold Shoulder
Glory Be!
The Unfrozen North
The Glory of Venus
What a World! What a World!
A Supernova Punctuates a Galaxy Pair
Did an Asteroid Just Disintegrate Before Our Very Eyes? Yorp.
Cosmos: On the Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
Morpheus Shows NASA the Path
Sorry, Conspiracy Theorists: Planet X Doesn't Mark the Spot
The Big Dipper Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
How a Canadian River Fueled a Climate Change Denial Meme
“Tiny” Asteroid to Give Us a Close Shave Today
Another Year, Another Set of Bizarre Cuts to NASA's Budget
The Cycle of Life, From a Caterpillar to a Galaxy
Federation Scum Is Attacking Mars!
Time-Lapse Video: Stars That Fell As Snow
Milky Meteor
Found Opportunity
A Monster Star Plows Through the Galaxy? Shocking.
Planet Bonanza: The Number of Known Earth-Sized Worlds Just Topped 100
Sculptures That Are Literally Head-Expanding
Should Public Schools Have Mandatory Vaccinations for Students?
Climate Change Deniers Lose Their Cool
Boom! The Sun Blurts Out an X-Class Flare!
Impact: Moon!
The Moon Ate Saturn!
The Mesmerizing Color-Dripping Dance of Asteroids
I’m Going to Phoenix Comicon!
ALERT: How to Fix a Major Security Flaw in Apple Mobile Devices
Great Lakes Get Deepest Freeze in Two Decades
A Brief Meandering About the Polar Vortex
INCREDIBLE Footage of An Aurora Dancing in Real Time!
Old Arctic Ice Is Disappearing and Taking the Rest of the Ice With It
Thousands of San Francisco Bay Area People Potentially Exposed to Measles
A Corkscrew Unwinds From a Galactic Cannonball
X-Raying a Monster Black Hole
To Map a Thousand Million Stars
Solar Interloper, Part 2
Fall and Spin Along With a Camera Dropped From an Airplane
Happy Cosmic Valentine’s Day!
One Year After Russia’s Sky Exploded
When Will the Earth Get Hit by Another Asteroid?
Tower of Power
An Asteroid Impacted Mars, and Did This
Southeast U.S. Battered by Another Winter Storm
Stripping America
The Winds of Warming
UPDATE: South Dakota Creationism Bills Dies
Long Way Home
Solar Interloper
WANT Part XIX: Mercury Globe Edition
Like Volcanoes Aren’t Scary Enough, Now They’re Spawning Twisters
I <3 Rachel Maddow
Moonicorn Chaser
Answers for Creationists
The Creation of Debate
Google Earth Shows You a Warming Planet
Take a Science Vacation in the Colorado Rockies
A Monster Sunspot Comes Around for Seconds
When Will We Find Another Earth?
Atlanta Storm Was a Government Conspiracy? Snow Way!
Terra Nova
SciperBowl 2014
Time-Lapse Video: Huelux
Short, Sweet, and Illegal
The Moon Swings in Front of the Sun. Then the Sun Belches.
All Four GOP Texas Lieutenant Governor Candidates Want to Violate the U.S.
Constitution
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Zooming in on Orion’s Stellar Nursery
A Cosmic Bubble That’ll Soon Pop. Hard.
I, Rock
Stunning Milky Way Time-Lapse Video: “Ancients”
The Space Station and the King of the Planets
Supernova!
A Sound of Cosmic Thunder: Earth-Impacting Asteroid Heard by Nuke Detectors
KABOOM! Nearby Galaxy M82 Hosts a New Supernova!
2013 Is the Fourth Hottest Year on Record
Rosetta Awakens!
Wait. Texas Is Spending How Much Money to Violate the Constitution?
Flipping Out Over a Round Planet
A Galaxy Rises out of the Ocean
Follow-Up: The Infinite Series and the Mind-Blowing Result
When Infinity Is Actually a Small, Negative Fraction
Epic Tantrums Get Stars Kicked Out ... of the Galaxy
Saturn Is Gassy, Self-Absorbed
Astronomers Find a Hellish Exoplanet Orbiting a Twin of the Sun … in a Star
Cluster
The Magic—I mean Science—of Iridescence
The Very, Very Thin Wedge of Denial
You Too Can See Yutu
The Final Countdown Before a Supernova
Twitter Trek, Part 2: The Math of Khan
Twitter Trek, Part 1: ... 'Cause I'm a Rocket Man
The Quadrantids and the Great Wall
Another Stunning Hubble Photo of a Vast Cloud of Gas and Dust
NEOWISE Bags Its First Asteroid!
Hubble Sees Infant Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe
Gigantic Sunspot Unleashes Flare; Expect Aurorae Tonight!
Hubble Opens Pandora’s Box, and Thousands of Galaxies Fly Out
No, the Polar Vortex Does Not Disprove Global Warming
The Gemini Planet Imager Is Ready to Explore Strange New Worlds
An Alien World as Massive as Earth … Except Gassier and Puffier
Monster Sunspot Turns Toward Earth
The Shocking Dust of an Exploding Star
Look! Up in the Sky! 101 Astronomical Events in 2014!
Ridiculously Beautiful Clouds Over Denver
Perihelion 2014!
No, You Won’t Be Able to Float on Zero G Day
Tiny Asteroid Discovered Just Yesterday “Virtually Certain” to Have
Harmlessly Impacted Earth
The Best Meteor Shower You’ve Never Heard of: The Quadrantids
Yes, That Picture of the Moon and the Andromeda Galaxy Is About Right
Happy New Tropical (or Anomalistic or Sidereal) Earth Orbital Time Period!
Salvadoran Volcano Ends 2013 With a Blast
2013: The Best of Bad Astronomy
Great Balls of Fire! Two, in Fact … and One Fake.
Another Brain-Melting Illusion: The Dragon That Follows Your Gaze
Two Views to Earth
If You Wanna See Venus, Better Hurry!
A Fearful Rendezvous for Mars Express
Santa Clausteroid
Petrified
The Best Astronomy and Space Photos of 2013
The Best Astronomy and Space Pictures of 2013
The Shortest Day
Earthrise: Recreating an Iconic Moment in Space History
NASA’s WISE Asteroid Hunter Is Back in Business
Meet One of the Moon’s Youngest Craters!
Look Out Below!
The Noodly Patty of Star Formation
Fly Over Titan’s Lakes of Liquid Natural Gas
Yeah, About That Global Warming “Pause” …
China Lands on the Moon
An Optical Illusion You'll Swear Is Moving. It Isn't.
We’re Still Losing Ice at the Poles
Geminid Meteors Peak Tonight!
Brushstrokes of Impact
Europa Erupts! Possible Geyser of Water Seen on Jupiter’s Moon
Time-Lapse: Into the Atmosphere
Katie Couric Apologizes for Anti-Vax Episode, but It’s Not Enough
Titan Has A Pupik!
Reminder: Finding Asteroids Is Hard
The Earth and Moon Dance in a Video Taken from Space
Dancing at the Science Party
The Heartland Institute and the American Meteorological Society
An In–Flight Movie Out an Airplane Window
How the Heck Did This Exoplanet Get Where It Is?
“Planetary Science Deserves Special Attention Because It Is Special”
Viral Illusion Will—and Should—Have You Doubting Your Eyes
Still Not Vaccinated? U.S. Measles Cases in 2013 Spike to Three Times Normal
Congratulations! It’s a Bouncing Baby Neutron Star!
Make It So, Make It So, Make It So
Katie Couric Gives Anti-Vaccine Ideas a Shot
Saturn’s Psychedelic Jet Stream
A Volcanic Twofer... FROM SPACE
"Scientists are…"
Time-Lapse: The Earth from Orbit
Three New Baby Planet Pictures
China (Again) Shoots for the Moon. We Should Join Them.
Remastered Masterpiece
Comet ISON Post Mortem
Playing the Cosmic Odds
ISON After Perihelion: The Undead Maybe Somewhat Ex-Comet
Avoid Black Friday: Get “21812” and “Hearts to Symphony” Instead
ISON Update for 22:00 UTC Nov. 28
LIVE NASA Video Chat About Comet ISON
Quick ISON Update: Dimmed but Still Rocking
Ethiopian (non) Eclipse
Comet ISON: Still Alive
What’s In a Comet Name?
Giving Thanks for a Comet, Live on Google+
Beauty Is Only Universe Deep
Quick ISON Update: Is It Still There?
SpaceX Launch Scheduled for Monday Night
UPDATE: Is Comet ISON Heading for Interstellar Space?
Planet Espresso