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Spectacular Aquariid Meteor Shower This Week – See Dozens of Shooting Stars Per Hour
There's an excellent chance to watch a meteor shower in the pre-dawn hours next week.
From May 4th, 5th, and 6th, at a few hours...
The Planets are Prepping for An Epic Alignment – Here’s How to Watch it Shape Up
From now until early July, the five nearest planets to Earth will slowly join a celestial conga line across the pre-dawn sky.
These rare, but...
Pluto Has Giant Ice Volcanoes that Could Hint at Existence of an Underground Ocean With Life
As spacecraft New Horizons recently sauntered past Pluto, images sent back to Earth made their way into the hands of a team that confirmed...
Even Dying Stars Can Still Give Birth to Planets, Scientists Discover
Planets are usually not much younger than the stars around which they revolve. Take the Sun: it was born 4.6 billion years ago, and not...
Are We About to Witness a Super-Massive Black Hole Merger?
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
A galaxy featuring a pair of supermassive black holes...
What Wintering Squirrels Can Teach Astronauts
When bears and ground squirrels hibernate in winter, they stop eating, lasting until spring simply on the fat reserves they've stored up in their...
Gigantic Planet Found Hidden in Plain Sight
An astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools.
The planet, TOI-2180...
Scientists at Stanford Revitalize Batteries By Bringing ‘Dead’ Lithium Back to Life
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries,...
Huge Supply of Water Discovered on Mars, Frozen at the Bottom of its Grand Canyon
Scientists peering into the depths of Mars' own grand canyon have found that water makes up as much as 40% of the ground there,...
Scientists Excited by Odd Fish Sounds Recorded in a Restored Coral Reef—the Coolest Thing You’ll Hear All Week
Few things are better than a natural mystery—and the rich diversity of chirps, croaks, and chit-chat captured in a recent recording at a newly-restored...
To Unravel Earliest History of Our Solar System, NASA’s Lucy Mission Launches Toward Asteroid Swarms Tomorrow
Tomorrow, on October 16th, NASA will launch the Lucy Mission into space—it will set a course for the Trojan Asteroids, with the aim of...
Mars Rover Grabs First Rock Sample, a ‘Truly Historic Moment’ and Major Step in Hunt for Alien Life
On the 6th of September, the Mars Rover Perseverance drilled down into a briefcase-sized rock with its incredibly sophisticated sample and capture system, and...
Astronaut Brings Ashes and Photos of 9/11 Victim to Space to Fulfill His Lifelong Dream of Orbiting For NASA
At age 6, Chad Keller already knew he wanted to be an astronaut, but his vision wasn’t sharp enough to pass the military requirements...
This Asteroid is a $10,000-Quadrillion Lump of Iron and a Potential Opportunity to Study an Exposed Planetary Core
Out between Mars and Jupiter in the solar system's asteroid belt, there's a lump of iron and nickel called 16 Psyche that has a...
Afghan All-Girls Robotics Team Offered College Scholarships, Says Oklahoma Mom Who Helped Them Escape Taliban
There may be no force more powerful than maternal instinct. An Oklahoma mom, who's come to think of some gifted Afghan girls as adopted...
The First Amateur Astronomer to Ever Discover a New Moon – And it’s Orbiting Jupiter
One might think that since we can take detailed images of galaxies millions of light years away, there's no way something as significant a...
Astronomers Spot Light From Behind a Black Hole for the First Time – Proving Einstein Right Again
When doing astronomy, you can't blink, because the difference between a never-before-seen phenomenon, and just a regular day at the telescope can be as...
NASA Helicopter Sends Stunning Photos of Martian Landscape from 33 Feet Up – LOOK
The little helicopter that the Perseverance rover brought along to Mars has repaid its big brother for the tagalong—snapping aerial images of the Red...
This Week’s Inspiring Horoscopes From Rob Brezsny’s ‘Free Will Astrology’
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly...
Listen to the First Eerie Sounds From Mars: China’s Rover Films Itself Driving on Red Planet, Making History
Reprinted with permission from World At Large, a news website of nature, politics, science, health, and travel.
Like NASA which landed its fifth Martian rover in...