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A full moon with a chance of fireballs: Don't miss the Southern Taurid meteor shower peak overnight on Nov. 4-5

Heads up stargazers! The Southern Taurid meteor shower peaks overnight on Nov. 4-5, when a flurry of bright meteors could ...
KQED

A New Eye on Earth's Edge: UC Berkeley-Guided Space Telescope Has Liftoff

This week, a rocket lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center carrying a new space telescope to its parking spot about 1 million miles from Earth, guided by mission operators at the Space ...
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Ancient Antarctic ice reveals six million years of Earth’s climate history

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, scientists uncovered something so old it makes even time feel young. Beneath that ...
The Washington Post

Missed this weekend’s eclipse? Here’s when the next ones are.

Skywatchers in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia got to enjoy a total lunar eclipse late Sunday — for 82 minutes, the full moon turned a rust-colored reddish brown, bathed in sunlight filtered by ...
autoevolution

SMILE Spacecraft Will Look at How Earth's Force Shield Keeps Instant Destruction at Bay

It's kind of scary to think that all life on Earth is just a flimsy and invisible magnetic field away from total annihilation. It is this thing that keeps solar particles at bay, preventing our planet ...
IFLScience

Earth's Weather Satellites Catch Cloud Changes... On Venus

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
KXAN

Space weather research mission launch delayed by NASA

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The next big mission to space is delayed but just by a few hours. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, NASA and SpaceX will now launch three satellites designed to study space weather on ...