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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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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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NASA NASA Shared Photos of the Moon’s Huge New Scar. Where Did It Come From?
NASA caught before-and-after images of a rare lunar impact that carved out the biggest fresh crater its orbiter has ever seen.
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WC.GI/Getty Images Life on Earth May Have a Violent Origin Story, Scientists Say
If it happened here, could it happen on other planets, too?
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(Photo by NASA via Getty Images) The Optimism of Artemis II and the Cynicism of the Moon’s Future
There’s an undeniable hint of old-school colonialism, but now IIIIIINNNN SPPPPAACCE-Ace-ace.
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NASA/Handout/Getty Images Artemis II Only Has One Problem So Far, and It’s a Nasty One
No matter how advanced your spacecraft is, you’ll always need a plumber.
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NASA/Handout/Getty Images These Artemis II Moon Photos Show a View Almost No Human Has Ever Seen
NASA’s Artemis II crew, traveling in an Orion spacecraft, has officially traveled further into space than any humans in history.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory How Scientists Found Thousands of Asteroids Hiding in Plain Sight
A new observatory has discovered more than 11,000 new asteroids, including 33 near-Earth objects, before even reaching full operation.
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The Earth Has 8.3 Billion People. This Is How Many It Can Actually Hold, According to Science.
Obviously, that’s a number we have severely overshot and will continue to build on that lead for the foreseeable future.
