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The most prolific meteor shower of the year, the Geminids, will peak overnight on Friday and Saturday (Dec. 13 and 14). The only annual meteor shower that scientists know for … Read More
Extremely rare, black “anti-auroras” helped create a peculiar E-shaped swirl of green light recently photographed over Alaska, experts say. Aurora hunter Todd Salat spotted the unusual aurora on Nov. 22 … Read More
Earth got a relatively close shave this morning (Dec. 4), as a sizable space rock zipped by just 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) away. The asteroid, called 2020 XR, … Read More
Richard Hamilton, an inventive mathematician who devised the Ricci flow, a groundbreaking equation that helped advance understanding of the fundamental nature of three-dimensional space, died on Sept. 29 in Manhattan. … Read More
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch a Starlink mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX aims to notch another milestone in spaceflight reusability Wednesday night when it will not only … Read More
Galaxies crashing together 12bn years ago could have caused the universe’s biggest galaxies to form, according to research. A study by astronomers at the University of Southampton is hoping to … Read More
As the Arctic warms at an unprecedented rate, scientists are bracing for an environmental milestone: the first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean. New research shows that this event could … Read More
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Wednesday morning, just after a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Station at 5:13 a.m., skywatchers in Northeast Florida witnessed a stunning spectacle in the twilight sky. … Read More
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a fourth world in a strange system of ultralight “super puff” planets. The new extrasolar planet or “exoplanet” was discovered … Read More
A small asteroid lit up the skies over northern Siberia today (Dec. 4) after burning up in Earth’s atmosphere in a “spectacular” (yet harmless) fireball. Astronomers spotted the space rock, … Read More
