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How to view the aurora borealis in the U.S. tonight

If you're close to the U.S.-Canadian border tonight, you're in luck. The Northern Lights may be sticking around a little longer, giving you another...

News - September 6, 2024

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By a technicality, August’s full moon is blue. Here’s why.

There's supposedly nothing special about a blue moon. A full moon is just a moon phase, and a blue moon is just a designation...

News - September 6, 2024

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Webb telescope just snapped image of huge black hole gobbling things

Black holes are misunderstood.They're almost inconceivably dense objects, which grants them immense gravitational power. (If Earth was hypothetically crushed into a black hole, it...

News - September 5, 2024

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Scientists haven’t found a rocky exoplanet with air. But now they have a plan.

Perhaps surprisingly, the majority of stars in the galaxy are not sun clones but smaller orbs of gas and plasma known as red dwarfs,...

News - September 2, 2024

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If aliens harnessed solar power, could we detect them? NASA investigated.

Somewhere in the galaxy, an advanced alien civilization might harness energy from its star. And NASA wants to know if it could detect this...

News - August 31, 2024

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NASA now seriously considering SpaceX for Boeing astronauts’ ride home

A pair of U.S. astronauts who test-piloted a new Boeing spaceship in June may not fly home on the craft they rode in on. While...