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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images The Sun Just Released Four Powerful Solar Flares in One Day, Scientists Confirm
Over a 20-hour window in early February, the Sun released four major solar flares.
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Cheng Xin/Contributor/Getty Images SpaceX Acquires xAI, Including Social Media Platform X (Formerly Twitter)
It’s AI slop… in space!!
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Amazon Says It’s Running Into a Rocket Shortage. Here’s What That Means.
Who knew, but the latest space race isn’t between nations for exploration, but businesses for profit.
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Photo: janiecbros / Getty Images The Satellite Trash Surrounding Earth Is One Bad Solar Storm Away From Disaster
We’re one powerful geomagnetic storm away from knocking out global communication and navigation.
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Photo: Sonsedska / Getty Images 8 Space Facts That Will Make You Feel Like You’re Living Inside a Glitch
Give yourself an existential crisis, as a treat!
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES How Scientists Use Earthquake Sensors to Track Space Junk Crashing to Earth
Our atmosphere is loaded with space junk, and every once in a while, it comes plummeting down to Earth in a rain of fire.
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Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images Everything You Need to Know About the ‘Solar Eclipse of the Century,’ Including How to See It
Two total solar eclipses are coming up, with one widely labeled as the “eclipse of the century.”
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SB/Getty Images Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video
Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.
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Space Is Full of Goo. According to One Theory, at Least.
Every new bit of information about space further repels me from it.
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Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Will Earth Really Lose Gravity in 2026?
People are now believing that the earth will allegedly “lose gravity” for seven seconds on August 12, 2026. Yes, really.
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Handout/Handout/Getty Images All Those Little Red Dots in Space Might Be Young Black Holes
These black holes are buried inside thick cocoons of gas that hide most of the signals that astronomers typically use to identify them.
