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The planet Jupiter when it was at a distance of about 668 million kilometers (415 million miles) from Earth. On Monday, May 21, 2018, scientists reported that an asteroid sharing Jupiter’s orbit, but in reverse, actually hails from a neighboring star system. They say the asteroid, known as 2015 BZ509, has been in this peculiar backward orbit ever since getting sucked into our solar system in the first moments after our solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. (NASA, ESA, and A.

Jupiter’s backward-flying asteroid from another star system

The planet Jupiter when it was at a distance of about 668 million kilometers (415 million miles) from Earth. On Monday, May 21, 2018, scientists reported that an asteroid sharing Jupiter’s orbit, but in reverse, actually hails from a neighboring star system. They say the asteroid, known as 2015 BZ509, has been in this peculiar backward orbit ever since getting sucked into our solar system in the first moments after our solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago. (NASA, ESA, and A.

May 21, 2018, 10:26am Life

Just months after the discovery of our first known interstellar visitor, it turns out there’s another asteroid from yet another star system residing in our cosmic club in plain view. Read story

Small gadgets are great gifts for the hard-to-please

May 20, 2018, 6:00am Business

May and June bring several gift-giving days in fairly quick succession: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and high school and college graduations. Read story

‘SNL’ meets Twitch’s meme-loving audience

May 19, 2018, 6:02am Life

Weird things happen when Twitch’s core audience meets the mainstream. Twitch is mainly known as a popular video platform for live-streaming video games, but when it experimented by streaming every episode of Bob Ross’s “Joy of Painting,” the fans participating in the live chat alongside the stream developed their own… Read story

Students from Image Elementary School in Vancouver prepare to release baby salmon into Salmon Creek on June 9, 2017. Students at Cascadia Elementary School in Ferndale have also been raising baby salmon, and are taking part in a program where they learn about the difficult journey Puget Sound fish face as they head toward the ocean.

Students follow Puget Sound fish’s treacherous journey to sea

Students from Image Elementary School in Vancouver prepare to release baby salmon into Salmon Creek on June 9, 2017. Students at Cascadia Elementary School in Ferndale have also been raising baby salmon, and are taking part in a program where they learn about the difficult journey Puget Sound fish face as they head toward the ocean.

May 17, 2018, 9:35pm Northwest

Just a few paces from the front entrance to Cascadia Elementary School, dozens of baby salmon dart around in a large, bubbling tank. But for a class of 28 second-graders down the hall, a cartoon juvenile steelhead named “Fishy McFishface” is stealing the show. Read story

The insect-gobbling Venus flytrap is under assault by development and poachers on the Carolinas coastal plain.

Feds consider protection for vanishing Venus flytrap

The insect-gobbling Venus flytrap is under assault by development and poachers on the Carolinas coastal plain.

May 17, 2018, 6:11am Life

The insect-gobbling Venus flytrap, which is under assault by development and poachers on the Carolinas coastal plain, could soon win the protection of federal endangered species law. Read story

Located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca, this tightly packed collection of stars — known as a globular cluster — goes by the name of NGC 4833.

Scientists create 3-D model of gas cloud where stars are born

Located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca, this tightly packed collection of stars — known as a globular cluster — goes by the name of NGC 4833.

May 17, 2018, 6:04am Life

Two astronomers from Greece have managed to model the three-dimensional structure of an interstellar gas cloud, and found that it’s on the order of 10 times more spacious than it originally appeared. Read story

Red snapper and corvina drum at a fish market in Panama.

Research: Don’t overfish large, old females

Red snapper and corvina drum at a fish market in Panama.

May 17, 2018, 6:03am Life

The bigger a female fish grows, the more eggs she lays — disproportionately so. Read story

In this frame from NASA TV, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, left, and NASA astronaut Drew Feustel work on shuffling around a couple of space station pumps at the International Space Station on Wednesday.

Spacewalking astronauts tackle pump swap at space station

In this frame from NASA TV, NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, left, and NASA astronaut Drew Feustel work on shuffling around a couple of space station pumps at the International Space Station on Wednesday.

May 16, 2018, 10:00am Life

Spacewalking astronauts carried out a high-flying, high-tech version of musical chairs Wednesday, rearranging pumps outside the International Space Station. Read story

From left: GeoGirls Kenna Owens, Christina Deming, and Marquesa Calderon moderate a round of “Who Wants to be an Volcanologist!” as part of an open house at the USGS Cascade Volcano Observatory in Vancouver on Saturday, May 12. The center opened its doors to the public just days before the anniversary of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

Teen-girl group in their element at observatory

From left: GeoGirls Kenna Owens, Christina Deming, and Marquesa Calderon moderate a round of “Who Wants to be an Volcanologist!” as part of an open house at the USGS Cascade Volcano Observatory in Vancouver on Saturday, May 12. The center opened its doors to the public just days before the anniversary of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

May 12, 2018, 10:30pm Clark County News

The eclectic mix of scientists, educators, emergency managers, geology nerds, parents and children rumbled through the Cascades Volcano Observatory open house Saturday with the din of engaged scientific conversations — but one room was distinctively louder and more bursting with energy than the rest. Read story

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster is shown after it landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday.

SpaceX’s rocket soars with satellite for Bangladesh

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster is shown after it landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday.

May 11, 2018, 11:07pm Nation & World

SpaceX lifted Bangladesh’s first satellite into orbit Friday using an upgraded rocket designed for dozens of repeat flights including back-to-back, same-day launches. Read story