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The Deep Blue Color of an Alien World
New Horizons Gets a First Glimpse of Pluto’s Moon Charon
Life After Paranormals: Season 3, Episode 5
FOLLOW-UP: Wall Street Journal Doubles Down on Global Warming Denial
La Petite Aurore
An Ultraviolet Galaxy Hunter Closes Its Eye
The View of Jenny McCarthy
All the Nomz: A Geeky Cookbook for Charity
The Newest New Moon
Defiance Season 1: Where Game Meets Show
Episode Recap: Everything is Broken
Dragon*Con Star Party 2013
You’re Getting Warmer: Another Wall Street Journal Global Warming Article
Misses the Target
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Sums Up the Witch Hunt Against Him
Precision Jump for the Grasshopper
Happy Aphelion 2013!
How to—Literally—Help Save the World from Asteroid Impacts
Happy Birthday, America!
The Lion’s Share of Galaxies
Russian Rocket Crashes and Explodes After Takeoff
Pluto Has Moons From Hell
Time Lapse: Arctic Lightscapes
A Perfect Volcanic Island and Plume
Episode Recap: Past is Prologue
Wall Eye Dolia
The Making of a Monster, Caught by Accident
Time-Lapse: Everest
Meteoreidolia
Episode Recap: The Bride Wore Black
The Flaming Skull Nebula. Seriously.
Astrophoto: Bungling the Milky Way
A Face-On Blast From the Past
Life After Paranormals: Season 3, Episode 4
Mercury’s Limb
Baby Stars Blast Gas out of Both Ends
Gigapixel Mars
“I Took Pictures of Two Galaxies!” He Said Swiftly
Bill Nye: Crusader for Science!
A Chinese Palace Crosses the Sun
Supermoonset
A Moment of Time-Lapse
A Crater Seen from Space…But Which Is It?
HPV Vaccine Is Working. Again.
Happy Summer Solstice 2013!
A Clear View of Alaska—and Maybe Our Future
Moon of Steel: Supermoon Returns
Life After Paranormals: Season 3, Episode 3
Announcing the Boulder Science Festival 2013!
Webcam Catches the Popocatépetl Volcano Blowing Its Stack
Look at Saturn and Say Cheese!
The Cosmic Ray Show
Draft NASA Bill Defunds Asteroid Mission, Restores Education
Miss Utah, Science, and Me
Episode Recap: If I Ever Leave This World Alive
How Do You Hide a Whole Supernova?
Heartland Institute Embarrasses Itself Again
Winged Tenants, Wanted and Unwanted
Cosmoquest Hangout-a-thon
Time-Lapse Video: The Magnificent Power of a Supercell
Colorado Is on Fire. Again.
Follow-Up: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vaccines
Time-Lapse: The Rise of the Milky Way
A Win for Science in Kansas
Life After Paranormals: Season 3, Episode 2
Ho-Hum, Just Another Gorgeous Spiral Galaxy
A Swirly Lava Pool on the Moon
Slaying the Zombie Ideas of Climate Change Denial
Episode Recap: I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Forensic Astronomy: The Gorgeous Corpse of a Dead Star
Time-Lapse Video: Horizons
The Scar of a Deadly Tornado
Martian Rock 'n' Roll
The Trek Continues
Albert Einstein Now in Space
Time-Lapse: “Existence”
Our Galaxy Just Got a Little More Interesting
Life After Paranormals: Season 3, Episode 1
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Anti-Vaxxer
Without Warning: Time Lapse of a Pink Aurora, With a Bonus
In Case You Miss Chris Hadfield …
Top of Another World to Ya!
Snapshot of Lowest Mass Exoplanet Ever Directly Seen (Probably)
Asteroid Masquerades as a Comet With a Million-Kilometer-Long Tail
The Sun Is a Rotten Orange
The Full Moon in Exquisite Detail
Stunning Pink Aurora Over Crater Lake
Prince Rupert’s Drops. Exploding.
Episode Recap: Goodbye, Blue Sky
Asteroid 1998 QE2 Has a Moon!
Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Safely Pass Earth Tomorrow
Wine Cork Magic Trick
Asteroid Mining Company Kickstarts a Space Telescope
“Amateur” Digs Deep—Very Deep—Into an Active Galaxy
The 17-Year Itch
The Arctic Ice “Death Spiral”
Three Planets Dance in the West After Sunset
A Sunset of Considerable Beauty
Moonrise From Space
Impact: Moon!
The Beautiful Death of the Sun’s Big Brother
Global Warming Firehose
“Bad Astronomy” on the Front Page of Wikipedia Today. Literally.
Drooling over Pictures of Pavlof Volcano from Space
VLT’s Birthday Gift to Us: Ephemeral Silhouettes on a Pink Curtain
Missile Launch Creates Weird Expanding Light Bubble in the Sky
UPDATE: Canadian Research Agency Still Selling Out Science
Spacefest: Astronauts, Artists, and Astronomers Assemble in Arizona
Europa Report Trailer, By Jove
The Violent Oklahoma Weather, From Far Above
Galaxies Are Weird and Weirdly Beautiful
SciFund Challenge: Why Do Science Outreach?
Lunar Hook Shot
Episode Recap: Brothers in Arms
BA Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
New Study: Climate Scientists Overwhelmingly Agree Global Warming Is Real and
Our Fault
The Top 6 Star Trek Science Mistakes
Kepler Planet-Finding Mission in Jeopardy
Time-Lapse Video: The Rising Slow-Motion Dance of the Eclipsed Sun and Moon
The Tracks of Ships Are Written in the Sky
Sun Erupts in First X-class Flares of 2013
Stunning Picture of the Milky Way…Over Los Angeles?
Canada Sells Out Science
Top 15 Pictures From Astronaut Chris Hadfield on the International Space
Station
(A Real) Space Oddity
Teasing Gravity
Episode Recap: The Serpent's Egg
Spectacular Satellite Re-Entry Caught on Video
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Coolant Leak on Space Station May Delay Return of Astronauts to Earth
No Need to Worry About Global Warming, Folks: More Carbon Dioxide Will Be
Awesome
Squishy Eclipse
The Beauty of Reality
Give Me An “F”! Creationists Fail a Fourth Grade Science Test
Ring of Fire Over Australia
Genie Scott Retires
A Different Angle on the Sun
Spock vs. Spock
The Remains of Halley’s Comet Burn and Linger in the Sky
The Quietly Raging Sun
The Heat and Light of an Active Volcano
A Quick Note About Vaccinations
Beautiful Time-Lapse Earth
Have Tunguska Meteorites Been Found? I Have My Doubts
Episode Recap: A Well Respected Man
Louisiana State Senate: We <3 Creationism
Twisting Solar Eruption
Collision Course! How A Cold War SpySat Nearly Took Out a NASA Observatory
A Microscopic Bloom from Space
Lord of All I Survey
Aftermath of a Colossal Cosmic Collision
Why is Our Government Attacking Science?
Death Valley DreamLapse
Man in (Front of) the Moon
TWiST for the Week of April 26, 2013
Virgin Galactic Successfully Tests SpaceShipTwo in Powered Flight
Pertussis Can Kill
The Glowering Red Eye of A Saturn Hurricane
The Herschel Mission Closes Its Eye
Maker of Useless Dowsing Rod for Bombs Convicted for Fraud
Analemma!
Climate Change or Global Warming? Both.
Measles Epidemic in Wales Has Roots in Antivax Movement
Episode Recap: The Devil in the Dark
Saturn-lit Moon
What’s the Opposite of Progress?
Cassini Sees Debris from Meteoroids Colliding with Saturn’s Rings
Three Years of the Sun in Three Minutes
Scientists in Antarctica Find Invading Neutrinos from Another Galaxy!
Betelgeuse Blows Out a Monstrous Arc of Gas Nearly As Big As Our Solar System
Curiosity Rover Takes a Sharp 3D Picture of Mars
Hubble Spies A Surprisingly Active Comet ISON
A Hundred Billion Star Trails Over Australia
Can Floating Cities Really Exist?
What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth in Space?
Futurama Canceled Again. Again.
Noodling Google’s Doodle
15 Facts About Our Planet for Earth Day
The Impact of Space Travel
Episode Recap: Down In The Ground Where The Dead Men Go
HPV Vaccine in Australia Already Appears to Be Working
Hubble's Knight to Remember
When Supermassive Supergiants Go Superboom
New Discovery: An Alien Solar System With Two Earth-Sized Worlds
Defiance Season 1: Ladies Kicking Butt
Take a Moment to Breathe
Galaxy at the Edge of the Universe Really Likes Making Stars
Baptist Pastor: Don’t Teach Religion in Public Schools!
Antares Go For Launch
UPDATE: Comet Will Come Close but Most Likely Miss Mars Next Year
Digging Out
Episode Recap: Pilot
Snowcano
Putin Announces $50 Billion Toward Space Program
Defiance Season 1: Julie Benz Does Watch What Happens Live
Andrew Wakefield Tries to Shift Blame for UK Measles Epidemic
When Federalists and the Federation Collide
The Streets Are Paved with… Vortices?
NASA 2014 Budget: More for Asteroids, Less for Planets and Education
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member Gets Schooled on Science Funding
Immerse Yourself in a Virtual Aurora
The Secret History of the Splinter Galaxy
It’s Alive! ALIIIVVVEEE!
Upside-down Moonset
NASA May Be Towing An Asteroid to a Planet Near You
Doctor Who, Season 7, Part 2
Get Defiance: The Essential Guide
Blue Skies Smiling at…Mars?
Get Defiance: The Video Game Soundtrack
Comet Chaser
The March of Antireality Continues
Hubble Finds a Special Record-Breaking Supernova
Distant Stars Look Very Much Like Our Local Neighbors
Curiosity’s Parachute Flaps in the Martian Wind
The Comet and the Galaxy
Tantalizing Hints of WIMPy Dark Matter
WWCID? (What Will Comet ISON Do?)
Astronaut Chases a White Herring
Buy the Defiance Game Now
A Distorted Galaxy And Its Cloaked Clouds of Gas
Cassini Spies a Forbidden Planet’s Flying Saucer Moon
Fires in the Sky
Crushing and Zapping and Impacting at the University of Illinois
Lenticular by Night
New Gullies Found in a Young(ish) Crater on Mars
The Dark, Dusty Graves of the GRAIL Spacecraft
Two Eclipses, Two Stories
Get the History of Defiance
I Can See My House From Here!
The Cold Fire of Orion
Watch the Ark Hunter Chronicles
Citizen Science Maps Asteroid Craters like the Pros
The Magic of Physics: A Water Spiral
Seriously, Pan-STARRS Keeps on Delivering
The Universe Is 13.82 Billion Years Old
How Much Is a Supernova Worth?
Voyager 1 Has Apparently Left the Solar System [CORRECTED]
Black Hole Flings Companion Star at 2,000,000 Kilometers Per Hour!
Yet Even More Amazing Pan-STARRS Pix and Vids
Beautiful Pan-STARRS Time-Lapse Video
No, Global Warming Has NOT Stopped
Aleutian Sleuthin’
The Sun Woke Up Yesterday
Antivaxxers Using Billboards to Promote Their Dangerous Message
Happy Pi Day!
Go See Comet Pan-STARRS While You Can!
Ancient Mars Had Conditions Suitable for Life
The Earth Is Warming Faster Now Than It Has in 11,000 Years
A Comet and Two Planets…Including Home
Saving the World From Asteroids
UPDATE: No, Life Has Still Not Been Found in a Meteorite
Howdy, Neighbor! New Twin Stars Are Third Closest to the Sun
The View from Above Our World
Hubble Shoots the Moon. Again.
The Everyday Solar System Challenge
Reflection and Emission
Antiscience “Academic Freedom” Bill Dies in Kansas
Get Ready For Comet Pan-STARRS To (Briefly) Grace Our Sky
Spinning Up a Storm
Europa’s Underground Ocean Surfaces
Hubble Spies a Space Invader
Venus… from Saturn
No, Our Solar System is NOT a “Vortex”
TWIST Episode 4: Will Mars Get Whacked by a Comet in 2014?
SpaceX Update: Dragon Now Mated to Space Station
SMBC Shoots the Moon
Looking Down Mount Etna’s Throat
BREAKING: After Initial Problems, SpaceX Dragon Now Looking Good On Orbit
SpaceX Ready to Launch Another Dragon to the Space Station
Mars May Get Hit By a Comet in 2014
Superfast Spinning Black Hole Tearing Up Space at Nearly the Speed of Light
Take THAT, Alien Scum!
TWIST Episode 3: INCOMING!
A Colorful Cloud Hints at a Very Violent Origin
Moon Rise over an Arsenic Lake
Attack of the Martian Tree Spiders!
OK, Here’s a (Mostly) Circular Volcano For Real
Movements in (Infra)Red
All That Plasma Will Be Lost in Time, Like Tears in Rain
Monster Triplets Inhabit the Lobster Nebula
Astronomers Find the Tiniest Exoplanet Yet
Saturn Gets Kinky
An Asteroid's Parting Shot
Why Are We Suddenly Getting Hit By So Many Space Rocks?
TWIST, Episode 2: Printing a Lunar Colony in 3D
A Perfect Cone [CORRECTED]
Defiance Season 1 Casting: From Lost to Defiance
[FOLLOWUP] Russian Meteorite Fragment May Have Hit Lake
Watch Asteroid 2012 DA14 Live As It Passes Earth
BREAKING: Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Sonic Boom Shatters
Windows (Updated)
Happy Cosmic Valentine’s Day!
No, An Asteroid Is NOT Going to Hit Earth in 2106
AMAZING Footage of a Satellite Deployment in Space
Defiance Season 1: When TV Met Video Games
Darwin Day 2013
Happy 3rd Anniversary to SDO!
Everything You Need to Know About This Friday’s Close Shave by Asteroid
2012 DA14
A Song from Space
My New Video Science Series: TWIST
Nor’easter Bearing Down on the East Coast, Seen from Space
Protostar Throws a Rave
Marco Rubio: Another Senator Who Doubts Global Warming
An Alien Earth May Be in Our Cosmic Back Yard
The Ghostly Glow of the Sun's Breath
NGC 1309: Stepping Stone to the Universe
Colorado Creationism Bill Dies in Committee
Galaxy Zapped by Its Own Black Hole
The Roiling, Twisted Wreckage of a Solar Eruption
NGC 1309: Stepping Stone to the Universe
Vaccinating Against McCarthyism
Super Bowl Science 2013
Voyager into Stardust
A Monster Rises from the Sea in Japan
Monster Saturn Storm Chokes on Its Own Tail
A Sparkling Imposter
Silhouettes and Moonrise in Real Time
The Cold, Dusty Arms of Andromeda
More Evidence That Mars Once Had Flowing Water
Hot Stars Blow a Superbubble
Keep Your Eyes on the Stars
Drown Your Brain in the Whirlpool Galaxy
The Art of Our Pale Blue Dot
The Stunning Beauty of the Perfect Spiral Galaxy M74
BREAKING: Colorado Anti-Evolution Bill Is “DOA”
Two of Earth’s Moons in One Picture
Expanding Fireworks from a Century-Old Stellar Explosion
The Great Lakes’ Cloudy Streets
Science: Ruining Everything Since 1543
And These Are the People Making Laws in Louisiana
Betelgeuse Is About to Hit the Wall
Creationism Creeps into Colorado
Earth May Have Been Hit by a Cosmic Blast 1200 Years Ago
Was McLaughlin Crater on Mars Once Actually LAKE McLaughlin?
Phase of Beauty
To Surf a Hundred Million Stars
WANT: Part XV
Finding E.T.
Vouching Against Creationism
To Sail the Winding River of Light
A Puff of Celestial Smoke
No, Diatoms Have Not Been Found in a Meteorite
Nessie Swims Between the Galactic Waves
A Volcanic Eruption, by Land and by Space
Debunking the Denial: “16 Years of No Global Warming”
Want Some Dust With Your Crab?
Time Lapse: Landscapes, Volume 3
Geronimo! Allons-y! Fantastic!
A Stunning, Sparkling Beehive Caught by Accident
GRAIL’s Stunning Parting Shots
Impact Threat from Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis in 2036 Now Ruled Out
Airborne Telescope Sees Matter Falling into A Black Hole
Science Getaways: Take Your Brain on Vacation to an Oregon Volcano
Sauron’s Got Some ‘Splainin to Do
The Wobbly Beam of the Vela Pulsar
NuSTAR’s Glimpse of Cosmic Violence
Alien Comets Swarm Around Other Stars
Our Galaxy Is Crammed Full of Planets
Ice Swirls off the Coast of Greenland…For Now
A WISE Flower Blooms in the Sky
Lunar Triple Whammy
The Year in (Bad) Astronomy Facts
A Sleeping Giant
Talking Tech and Science with Neil Tyson on "Star Talk" at Comic Con
The Milky Way's Old (and Huge) Faithfuls
It's All Uphill From Here: The Earth at Perihelion
The Sun Does a Dance on New Year’s Eve
Happy Restart of the Earth's Tropical Orbital Period!
On Approach to the New Year
The Earth’s Story in 60 Seconds
“Sun Storm” Airs on Discovery Channel Tonight, Dec. 30
When the Moon Ate Jupiter
Today’s Full Moon is the 13th and Last of 2012
Anniversary of a Cosmic Blast
A Grasshopper’s Leap
Milky Way, Meteor, Meteorology
Happy Holidays from the Whole Universe
Contact: Fact or Fictional?
A Smoke Ring and a Shooting Star
A Dying Star Shoots Out a Cosmic Enigma
My TEDx Talk About Asteroid Impacts Featured on Huffington Post
Phew! One Less Asteroid Impact to Worry About
Happy Winter Solstice!
The Ghost of Doomsdays Past
Saturn’s Glorious Dark Side
The Top Astronomy Pictures of 2012
The Best Astronomy Images of 2012
Worried About the End of the World on Dec. 21? Don’t Be.
Space Holiday Gifts
Marco Rubio Backtracks a Bit on the Age of the Earth
Time-Lapse Video: Further Up Yonder
Video Tour of the International Space Station
The Grand Experiment Has Not Failed. We Have.
40 Years Ago Today: The Last Human Left the Moon ... for now
Geminids Rain Down Shooting Stars
Alien Nile: River of Liquid Methane Seen on Saturn's Moon Titan
Hubble Sees Tribe of Galaxies at the Dawn of the Universe
Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks over the Next Few Days
Montana Microburst Flattens Trees like Toothpicks
A Tale of Three Craters
Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air
The Labor of Hercules A