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Follow-Up: Interstellar Mea Culpa
Colbert on Climate
BA Review: Interstellar
Interstellar Science
A Dusty Disk Heralds the Birth of a New Solar System
If You Want to Survive a Black Hole Encounter, Bring a Friend
Midterm Elections, the Senate, and Republican Science Denial
SpaceShipTwo Crash Update
Dating Craters
Ceiling Nebula Is Watching You Trick-or-Treat
Happy Solarween!
And Yet, We Continue Upward
From the Moon to the Earth
Iridescent APOD
Popeular Science
BREAKING: Antares Rocket Explodes on Takeoff
Tethying Rings
Antares Is Go for Launch Tonight
An Ionized Flower Blooms in Space
Chromatic Clouds
Gallery: The Partial Solar Eclipse of October 2014
Our Solar System and Galaxy … Seen by an Astronaut
Update: Sunspot 2192’s X-Class Flare
Monster Sunspot Will Make Thursday’s Eclipse That Much Cooler
An Illusion That Makes Me Happy and Sad
Watch the Moon Eat the Sun: The Partial Solar Eclipse on Thursday, Oct. 23
Gallery: The Red Planet and the Comet
Persistence Pays Off: The Smoking Trail of a Shooting Star
Mars and the Comet: The Countdown
Figuratively Shiny: A Firefly Video
Literally Shiny: A Firefly Video
Ice to See You
To Pluto … AND BEYOND!
Evidence for Evolution, Stated Clearly
I Got Shot in the Asteroid
Self-Portrait 10 Miles From a Comet
Why Yes, It Is Exactly Rocket Science!
Britain’s “Best Loved Psychic” and the Very Definition of Irony
Last Week’s Lunar Eclipse Seen … From Another Planet
What Does 200 Billion Stars Really Mean?
Undulatus Asperatus
A Typhoon and a Cyclone Are Aiming for Land
The Blood Moon Eclipse of October 2014
Time’s Up for Astrology
An Eclipse of a Different Kind
Stellar Explosion Dwarfs Our Sun’s Best Shot
Pull an All-Nighter for Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse
The Hidden Earth: Undersea Mountains by the Thousands
Spot the Space Station This Week!
Slate Plus Doctor Who Podcast Episode 7: “Kill the Moon”
How to Lie With Data (or, “Melting Away Global Warming”)
Ten Things to Know About Vaccines
“Stormscapes”: Mesocyclone Time-Lapse
Ma Halo
What Put the Man in the Moon in the Moon?
Say Hello to Our Quasi-Moon, 2014 OL339
What Lurks Beneath the Methane Lakes of Titan?
This Is Your MOM’s Mars
Where Will We Find Extraterrestrial Life First?
Japanese Volcano Eruption Caught on Video … VERY Up Close and Personal
A Night of Science and Silliness
The Oldest Known Star in the Universe
MAVEN’s Mars
Jon Stewart Puts the Heat on Congress
Holy Kilauea!
Google Exec: Climate Change Deniers Are “Just Literally Lying”
I Stand With Emma Watson
Two Impacts, One Landslide … on Mercury
MAVEN Arrives at Mars
An Astronaut’s Guided Video Tour of Earth
The Shaggy Sun
The Curious Incident of the Supernova in the Nighttime
Red and Green Ghosts Haunt the Stormy Night
A Bridge Across the Sky
Ring Around the Rainbow
A Galaxy of Tatooines
The Comet and the Cosmic Beehive
Polar Vortex Excursions Linked to Global Warming
Volcanado
Rosetta’s Comet Sprouts a Jet
“What If” You Just Bought This Book?
SciShow: How Do We Measure the Distance to the Stars?
50 Kilometers From a Comet
Doctor Who Podcast Episode 3: “Robot of Sherwood”
Harassment as Art
97 Percent, 97 Hours, 97 Climate Scientists
Did a Meteorite Impact in Nicaragua over the Weekend?
When Will Betelgeuse Explode?
No, We’re Not Facing an Onslaught of Asteroid Impacts
Not Your Average Vacation Video: An Exploding Volcano!
SciShow: The Smallest Star
Perspective on a Cloudy Day
Small Asteroid Will Pass Earth Closely but Safely on Sunday
Our Place in the Universe: Welcome to Laniakea
Refacing the Face on Mars
A N D R O M E D A
New Observations Confirm Greenland, Antarctica Losing Land Ice Rapidly
Mystery No More: The Sliding Stones of Death Valley
No, You Can’t Claim Arctic Ice Is “Recovering”
Time-Lapse: The ESO Observatories
Two Days Previously
The Closest Known Exoplanet? Maybe …
Episode Recap: I Almost Prayed
Episode Recap: All Things Must Pass
Double Rainbow ... With Lightning!
The Slate Plus Doctor Who Inaugural Podcast
An Island Grows in the Ocean
No, There Still Is No Connection Between Vaccines and Autism
Noctilucent Time-Lapse
“Everybody, Remember Where We Parked”: Choosing a Landing Site on a Comet
SpaceX and ESA Suffer Launch Problems
Call of the Universe
Indonesian Volcanoes and Galactic Vistas
The Ring Nebula, Still Mysterious After All These Years
Episode Recap: Doll Parts
Episode Recap: Bottom of the World
Impact for a Lifetime
Dating a Star ... a Few Hundred Thousand, in Fact
Our Curiosity
Did I Say 30 Billion Tons of CO2 a Year? I Meant 40.
Venus and Jupiter, Together
Titanic Weather
The Fiery Final Descent of a Spaceship
How Do You Weigh a Helium Balloon?
No, a Huge Asteroid Is NOT “Set to Wipe Out Life on Earth in 2880”
My Life as a Comic
No, Google Moon Doesn’t Show an Alien Loitering on the Moon
Episode Recap: Painted From Memory
The Faces of Ultraviolet
FANTASTIC Close-Up of a Comet From Rosetta ... and Evidence of a Landslide
New Research Links Extreme Weather to Global Warming
Prepping for a Cometary Martian Encounter
Still Life, With Bird
Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth
Italia … Dallllloooo Spaaaaaaaziooooo!
Low-Down Dirty Deniers
Time-Lapse: Orbit
Massive Storms Erupting on Uranus
Play the Defiance Game World Expansion
Slowing for Mars
New Horizons Sees Pluto and Charon in Motion!
Episode Recap: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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
Episode Recap: If You Could See Her Through My Eyes
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
Episode Recap: This Woman's Work
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!
Episode Recap: Put the Damage On
… And Robin Laid an Egg
Royal Greenwich Observatory’s Astrophotographer of the Year Contest
Episode Recap: Beasts of Burden
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
Episode Recap: The Cord and the Ax
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
Episode Recap: In My Secret Life
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
Defiance Season 2 Game/Show Crossovers
Get Trace Adkins' Defiance Song
Defiance Season 2: Watch Grant Bowler on The Today Show
Time-lapse: Planetary Panoramas
Creationism Isn’t Science, and Shouldn’t Be Taught That Way
Senate Boosts NASA Budget, But at What Cost?
Episode Recap: The Opposite of Hallelujah
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”
Defiance Game Adds Stahma Tarr
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
Wonder Woman Fangrrls Sweepstakes
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!
Join the Shadowy Chimera in Arktech Revolution Game DLC
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!
Defiance Season 2: Linda Hamilton Arrives in Defiance
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
Take a Stand in Gunslinger Trials Game DLC
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?