25 Dazzling Images from Hubble Space Telescope
NASA 1 of 26 Since its 1990 launch, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided more than one million "observations" - the term NASA uses to describe images, measurements and other kinds of data the...
View ArticlePhoto: The Incredible Rise of Rocket Frog
A frog unwittingly made one giant leap for amphibian kind on Friday, Sept. 6, when it was catapulted into the air during NASA's LADEE spacecraft launch. A still camera on a sound trigger at Virginia's...
View ArticleStunning Photo of Twin Waterspouts Over Lake Michigan
People along the Lake Michigan shoreline near Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie, Wis., were treated to a stunning sight Thursday afternoon when twin waterspouts formed off the coast. Gulnaz Saiyed uploaded...
View ArticleRaging Fire Strikes at Heart of Sandy-Hit N.J. Town
Updated Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, 7:44 p.m. ET Onlookers watch from the shore as black smoke rises from a fire on the Seaside Heights, N.J., boardwalk Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/The Asbury...
View ArticleLift Off: Man Attempts to Cross Atlantic with Helium Balloons
CARIBOU, Maine (AP) - Hundreds of multicolored balloons used Thursday to launch a balloonist for a trans-Atlantic crossing look like a page taken from the script of the movie "Up." Instead of using a...
View ArticlePhotos: Fire Rages Along N.J. Boardwalk
AP Photo/The Asbury Park Press, Bob Bielk 1 of 8 Onlookers watch from the shore as black smoke rises from a fire on the Seaside Heights, N.J., boardwalk Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. The fire started in...
View ArticleNJ Coast Rebuilt From Superstorm Is Ripped by Fire
Updated Friday, Sept. 13, 6:56 p.m. ET Firefighters battle a raging fire on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, N.J., that apparently started in an ice cream shop and has spread several blocks, Thursday,...
View ArticleTropical Depression Threatens Eastern Mexico
(NOAA) The southwestern Gulf of Mexico has given birth to the next tropical depression in the Atlantic. The system will then spread flooding downpours into eastern Mexico and perhaps needed rain into...
View ArticleMassive Molasses Spill Devastates Hawaii Marine Life
Various kinds of dead marine life collected by employees from the PENCO Pacific Environmental Corporation can been seen in this barrel on the dock fronting the La Mariana Sailing Club in Keehi Lagoon...
View ArticleIt's Official! Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System
An artist's illustration of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-built object from Earth, which launched in 1977 and is headed for interstellar space. (Credit: NASA) A spacecraft from Earth...
View ArticleWould You Board Flight 666 to HEL?
(AFP PHOTO / MARKKU ULANDER) HELSINKI (AP) - Would you board flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th? For superstitious travelers, that might be tempting fate. But Finnair passengers on AY666 to Helsinki...
View ArticleBalloonist Hoping to Cross Atlantic Lands in Newfoundland
Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 Jonathan Trappe/Facebook YORK HARBOR, Newfoundland (AP) - A balloonist who was trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean using hundreds of helium-filled balloons landed short of his...
View ArticleTropical Storm Ingrid Pelts Eastern Mexico with Rain
Updated Friday, Sept. 13, 2013, 7:10 p.m. ET VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - Heavy rains lashed Mexico's Gulf Coast Friday as Tropical Storm Ingrid formed over water about 60 miles away, threatening more...
View ArticleStunning Photos of Free Runners in Santorini, Greece
Red Bull Content Pool 1 of 5 Jason Paul of Germany performs on a rooftop during the final training session for the Red Bull Art of Motion freerunning competition on Santorini Island, Greece, on Sept....
View ArticleOfficals Call Colorado Flooding 'An Unprecedented Event'
Updated: Sept. 14, 2013, 12:30 p.m. ET Mail carrier Dave Jackson closes a mailbox with his foot after delivering the mail to a home surrounded on three sides by a flooded Cheyenne Creek Friday, Sept....
View ArticlePhotos: Flooding Wreaks Havoc in Colorado
AP Photo/John Wark 1 of 45 Updated: 2 p.m. ET, Sept. 15, 2013 Deadly flooding has put a huge part of Colorado -- an area the size of Connecticut -- under water. A tractor sits partially submerged in a...
View ArticleHurricane Ingrid Forms Off Mexico
Updated Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, at 10:32 p.m. ET Above, a man walks through a flooded street during heavy rains caused by tropical storm Ingrid in the Gulf port city of Veracruz, Mexico, Friday Sept....
View ArticleTropical Storm Heads to Mexico's Pacific Coast
Updated Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013 at 11:47 p.m. ET Satellite imagery shows Tropical Storm Manuel landing on Mexico's Pacific coast. (NOAA) MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Manuel has prompted the government...
View ArticleDivers Exploring Mysterious 'Blue Hole' in New Mexico
Sept. 14, 2013 Above is the surface of the "Blue Hole" in Santa Rosa, N.M. The balloons hold up underwater scuba stations used to train divers. (Richard Delgado) In 1976, two students died while...
View ArticleRescuers Issue Stern Warning to Colorado Evacuees
Updated Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, at 10:40 p.m. ET Eric Machmuller, front left, and Pat Machmuller, rear left, lead a boat down a residential street to help residents gather pets and belongings from...
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