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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Watches Ships Crossing the Atlantic Ocean
A new image released by NASA's Aqua satellite shows a beautiful pattern of clouds created by ships criss-crossing the Atlantic…
Two Years Ago Today: It Was a Clear Day on Pluto When New Horizons Flew By
It was two years ago this morning that we awoke to see the now iconic image of Pluto that the…
Grab Your Smartphone And Become A Citizen Scientist For NASA
NASA's new GLOBE Observer app allows users to observe the sky in their location and share the data with NASA.
First Detection of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water…
Clouds Seen On Pluto For First Time
New images from NASA's New Horizons probe show possible clouds drifting lazily over Pluto's chill landscape.
What are Those Colorful, Crazy Clouds in the Sky??
My Twitter feed exploded on June 25 with reports of colorful, crazy-looking clouds, sundogs, Sun halos and more. The above…
Mountains Soar Above the Appalachians in this Dramatic NASA Photo
Except these are mountains made of water, not rock! Taken from an altitude of 65,000 feet, the image above shows enormous…
Earth’s Highest Clouds Shine at the “Top of the Orbit”
Looking for a new desktop background? This might do nicely: a photo of noctilucent "night-shining" clouds seen above a midnight Sun…
New Desktop Image Alert: The Moon Over Earth
If you're like me, you don't change your computer's desktop background nearly often enough... especially not considering all the fantastic…
Venus’ Winds Are Mysteriously Speeding Up
High-altitude winds on neighboring Venus have long been known to be quite speedy, whipping sulfuric-acid-laden clouds around the superheated planet…