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Comets
Kim Poor
Comets

NASA to keep protective eye on Mars spacecraft as comets buzz by

An island emerged off Gwadar coast after a powerful earthquake of 7.7 magnitude struck Pakistan on Tuesday. **Do NOT use until cleared by Tech/Sci who...
Noor Moshin for NBC News
Earthquake

Pakistan earthquake creates new island, 'mud volcano' to blame

Aquarius

Age of Aquarius: See the famed constellation in night sky this week

With a new season comes a new sky. The passing of the autumn equinox means that the days are beginning to shorten and weather is...

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Lincoln
Alexander Gardner / Library of Congress, Prints and Photo Divison / Courtesy of Christopher Oakley
Abraham Lincoln

Could it be Lincoln? Gettysburg photo stirs up a debate

Google Science Fair winners
Andrew Federman / Andrew Federman
Science

Teens face down flu viruses, energy crises in winning Google Science Fair entries

Stamps1
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Postage stamps

Postmarked 'moon': Space stamps star in Smithsonian postal gallery

Eagle
Linda Kerley, Zoological Society of London
Golden eagle

Golden eagle's rare attack on deer caught on camera

Comet
JPL-Caltech
Asteroid

35 million years ago, asteroid bashed into Virginia; effects are still visible

Dogs1
Martine Fayein / Alpha Necropolis
Archaeology

Egyptian dog mummy infested with bloodsucking parasites

So-called "flushable" wipes are clogging up sewer systems around the country. Rob Villee, executive director of the Plainfield Area Regional Sewer Authority in New Jersey, holds up a wipe he flushed through his test toilet in his office.
Julio Cortez / AP
Consumer

What a bummer! 'Flushable' wipes blamed for sewer woes

cane toad
Courtesy Yufani Olaya / PeruNature.com
Weird science

Bat-toad? Photo shows amphibian with a mouthful of mammal

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Mars1
NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS
Mars

Water on Mars: Curiosity uncovers a flood of evidence

Ferarri
ESA / AOES Medialab
Satellite

Doomed 'Ferrari of space' satellite to fall back to Earth -- somewhere ...

File photo of thunderstorm in Chicago
Scott Olson / Getty Images
Environment

Warming planet could spawn bigger, badder thunderstorms

Sailships
Adrian Mann
Solar sails

Solar sail ships seen as best bet now to get us to interstellar space

Diatoms
Alexa Van Eaton
Volcanic ash

How a volcanic super-eruption launched algae army into the sky

Cygnus
Orbital Sciences Corp.
International Space Station

Cygnus spacecraft's arrival at space station delayed by incoming crew

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Snake
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo
Mars

Slithering snake robots could give future Mars rovers an assisssst

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO: A dish of sauteed maggot, a typical Mexican delicacy, is photographed at Girasoles Restaurant in Mexico City 19 October 2001. M...
JORGE UZON / AFP/Getty Images
Science

'Disgustologist' digs deep into science of revulsion

This photo taken on August 11, 2011 shows a coal fired power station in Huaibei, in east China's Anhui province. Beijing has stepped up investment in...
STR / AFP / Getty Images
Environment

Greenhouse gas reduction could prevent millions of premature deaths

Screenshot, Hawaii News Now
Screenshot - Hawaii News Now
Environment

Molasses spill suffocating Hawaiian reef fish

Image: Earth at September equinox 2011
EUMETSAT
Astronomy

What defines the end of summer? It's just how our planet is tilted

An artist's rendering of the Cygnus capsule approaching the space station.
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Space

Computer mishap delays space station supply ship

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The head of an Aphrodite sculpture
Michael Hoff / University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Archaelogy

Head of goddess Aphrodite statue unearthed in Turkey

Ice
NASA Earth Observatory
Antarctica

First estuary found under Antarctica ice -- the prospects are fascinating

Left: The surface of Mars, right: The Star Wars prop of actor Harrison Ford's Han Solo character frozen in carbonite is displayed at the museum exhibi...
NASA, Getty Images
Movies

NASA: Frozen Han Solo is on Mercury (kind of)

Leaves
Toby Talbot / AP file
Climate change

It'll make you see red -- or not: Warming could dull fall tree colors

ISON
NASA / ESA, / J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), and the Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team
Comet ISON

Even a behaving badly Comet ISON would pose no threat to Earth

Forest1
Jamie Bradshaw
Melting glacier

Still standing: Ancient Alaskan forest thaws from melting glacial tomb

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Deep
ESA / NASA
Deep Impact spacecraft

NASA's comet-hunting Deep Impact spacecraft declared dead

Image: Diatom
EPA / Univ. of Sheffield
Alien life

New alien life claim is far from convincing, scientists say

Image: Temple reconstruction
Jerusalem 3D US LP
Cosmic Log

Why Jerusalem still hangs onto ancient archaeological mysteries

Climate change

Female leaders gather at summit to push for action on climate change

Female scientists and leaders from more than 35 countries will descend on the small town of Suffern, N.Y., this weekend to discuss...

Cygnus
Orbital Sciences Corp.
Skywatching

See Cygnus spacecraft chase down space station in pre-dawn sky

The Bakersfield legless lizard (Anniella grinnelli), which today ranges from downtown Bakersfield in the southern San Joaquin Valley to the Carrizo Plain National Monument 30 miles to the west.
Alex Krohn
legless lizard

Don't call them snakes! 4 legless lizard species discovered in California

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The Obama administration unveiled new regulations setting strict limits on the amount of carbon pollution that can be generated by any new U.S. power ...
Charlie Riedel / AP file
energy

EPA sets first-ever curbs on power plant pollution

Core
NASA
Earth core

Why Earth's inner and outer cores rotate in opposite directions

Quake
USGS
Earthquake

Earth's biggest deep earthquake ever puzzles seismologists

Bigfoot
Joshua Stevens
Bigfoot

Looking for Bigfoot? Follow this map — others have seen 'em there

Methane
NASA / JPL / MSSS / Marco Di Lorenzo / Ken Kremer
Mars

Mars mystery deepens: Curiosity finds no sign of methane

Richard1
Van Heyningen and Haward
King Richard III

Stately tomb is revealed for King Richard III's reburial

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