A visitor stops by the LG Electronics booth on January 9, 2018, during the International Consumer Electronics Show to check out the company’s newest smart appliances, home entertainment, and mobile technologies. CES International 2018 was held in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 9, 2018, to January 12, 2018 (Jack Dempsey/AP Images for LG Electronics)
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took a selfie that shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it’s been investigating for the past several months. Photobombing the rover is Mount Sharp, a Martian mountain. Photos that made this mosaic selfie were all taken on January 23, 2018 (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released on January 17, 2018 shows an ancient globular cluster named NGC 3201. It’s a gathering of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity. Astronomers recently discovered a black hole lurking at the heart of the cluster. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
This is Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua; two monkeys recently cloned in Shanghai, China. This photo of the cloned monkeys was provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and released by China Daily on January 20, 2018. (Reuters)
The moon passes into the earth’s shadow in Phoenix, AZ during a rare lunar occurrence that included a blue moon, a super moon and a total lunar eclipse on January 31, 2018. (AP)
A photo taken by a robotic probe, on January 19, 2018, shows a view of the bottom of a structure housing a safety system called the control rod drive at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant. Operators of the now crippled Fukushima nuclear plant used the remote control camera to capture images of some of the melted fuel inside one of the plant’s three reactors. The images will provide critical information for the cleanup of the reactor, which is expected to take decades to complete. (AP)
The solar arrays on NASA’s InSight Mars lander were deployed as part of testing conducted Jan. 23, 2018, at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. NASA says the launch window for the InSight mission will open May 5, 2018. (Lockheed Martin Space)
Rokid’s Augmented Reality or AR glasses are seen on display at CES International 2018 on Jan. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
An Ariane-5 rocket, carrying the SES-14 Satellite, which hosted NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD mission, is seen being launch from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana on January 25, 2018. (Arianespace)
Professor Israel Hershkovitz, from Tel Aviv University, holds a partial jaw bone containing seven teeth, which was unearthed in a cave in Israel. The fossils are part of a collection that scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa. The photo was taken on January 28, 2018. (Reuters)
Data from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes were combined to produce these distant interacting galaxies, known collectively as Arp 142. Located some 23 million light years from Earth, the space agency says the two galaxies will eventually merge to form a single object. NASA released the photo on January 31, 2018 (NASA-ESA/STScI/AURA/JPL-Caltech)
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