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Kevin Key/Slworking/Getty Images The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is Peaking Tonight, and the Viewing Conditions Are Shockingly Good
The lyrid meteor shower peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and this year the sky is staying nice and dark.
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Roberto Machado Noa/Getty Images NASA Wants to See What Happens When You Start a Fire On the Moon
NASA wants to start a fire under lunar gravity just to see what happens. And maybe learn a thing or two about putting out a space fire.
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Charles Harker/Getty Images This Cemetery Has Been Hiding Millions of Residents for Almost 100 Years
Forget ghosts, this New York cemetery has been hiding a massive underground bee metropolis since at least the 1930s.
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Nazar Abbas Photography/Getty Images Scientists Found a Strange Way to Curb Your Junk Food Cravings
The term “food porn” is a much more appropriate label than we once thought.
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Zhihao/Getty Images Martian Meteorites Were Found With Human Stuff in Them. But Why?
A new analysis found traces of human-made contaminants in Martian rocks, from pen ink pigments to lab-related debris.
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The Northern Lights Will Soon Be Visible in Unexpected Places. Here’s How to See Them.
A giant hole opened up in the sun’s atmosphere, and if you live in the right part of the country, you might want to go outside tonight.
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Credit: DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Scientists Just Finished an Insanely Detailed 3D Map of the Universe
After five years of scanning the sky, DESI has given scientists their best shot yet at figuring out whether dark energy is actually changing.
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The Sun Destroyed an Asteroid, Now Comes the Aftermath
What looked like a random batch of meteors may actually be the remains of a small asteroid slowly cooked apart by the Sun.
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Photo: SDenisov / Getty Images Scientists Figured Out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding, But the Answer Is Troubling
It’s not all that surprising to think there are major gaps in our understanding of the universe.
