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Wildfires erupt as record heat bakes the Southwest
All-time heat records were toppled on Monday as wildfires broke out on the outskirts of Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwest.
By Andrew Freedman and Elizabeth Pierson
A rare 'strawberry moon' appeared in the sky and it was stunning
The rare sight hasn't happened during the solstice since 1967.
An 'electric wind' blew Venus' water away, new study suggests
A new study suggests that Venus' electric wind stripped the planet's atmosphere of its water vapor.
Global coral bleaching event to hit U.S. hard, with no end in sight, scientists warn
The longest recorded global coral bleaching event is going to get longer and hit closer to home, U.S. scientists said Monday.
Deadly heat wave scorches Southwest, expands its reach this week
Heat records will fall across the Southwest on Monday as a heat wave continues to roast the region.
Watch the highlights of the Bezos-backed Blue Origin rocket's 4th flight
The latest Blue Origin test marks the fourth time this rocket and capsule have flown to space together.
Bezos-backed Blue Origin rocket’s 4th test launch is ‘picture perfect'
Blue Origin aired its fourth test flight of the New Shepard suborbital space system live online Sunday.
Watch Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin perform a risky rocket test during the company's first live webcast Sunday
Blue Origin will launch the fourth test flight of its New Shepard space system on Sunday. Watch it live.
British astronaut Tim Peake, 2 others back on Earth after 186 days in space
Welcome back, boys!
Every observatory in the world now reports carbon dioxide is at highest level in 4 million years
Carbon dioxide levels have reached 400 parts per million at the South Pole for the first time in at least 4 million years.
Amazing photos show a UFO cloud hovering over Mount Etna
Lenticular clouds, colloquially known as UFO clouds, are some of the most fascinating cloud types in existence.
This huge plankton bloom in the North Sea looks like a painting
Get lost in the swirls of a giant phytoplankton bloom in the North Sea.
Brutal and prolonged heat wave about to hit the Southwest
The hottest temperatures in at least two decades could affect the Southwest this weekend and into early next week.
19 stunning aerial photos of the Earth from Tim Peake's space mission
The Earth has never looked more beautiful.
By Sam Haysom
New video makes NASA's next Jupiter mission look like a blockbuster
NASA's new trailer for its Juno mission to Jupiter shows off the huge planet in all its scary glory.
Earth has a little asteroid pal that has danced with it around the solar system for 100 years
Hi, little quasi-moon. Nice to meet you.
Pioneering LIGO observatory finds more ripples in space and time
For only the second time, scientists have seen the signal of two merging black holes sending gravitational waves out into space.
SpaceX misses landing on a drone ship in the ocean, breaking the company's streak
Well, no one is perfect, not even Elon Musk.
Watch live as SpaceX attempts to land another rocket on a drone ship Wednesday
SpaceX is going for a landing on a drone ship in the ocean again today after launching two satellites toward orbit.
Stark photo could show newly discovered alien planet circling its star
A new image of a star shows a possible alien planet in orbit around it.
Massive heat dome to scorch the Southwest, could smash longstanding records
All-time record high temperatures are in jeopardy in the Southwest U.S. as a searing heat wave develops.
Latest Curiosity rover selfies show off Mars' red surface
A set of new selfies from Mars show Curiosity posing for the camera with the stark Martian background behind it.
It's the end of the fossil fuel era as we know it
Expect a massive deployment of renewable energy worldwide through 2040, a new report finds.
A newly-discovered type of meteorite may be evidence of ancient cosmic crash
Scientists have discovered the first direct evidence of an ancient collision between two asteroids 470 million years ago.
