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Space.com

For the third time this year, the bright red star Antares will be occulted or hidden by the moon on Thursday, May 23. Comments (0). a giant transparent crab in the night sky in captured within a yellow circle. The. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan/Starry …

Space.com

New “star signs” have been identified above Earth made of defunct satellites and old rocket parts to draw attention to the worsening space debris problem. Called Space Trash Signs, the project is a result of a collaboration between space sustainability …

CNN

The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is being eaten away from below as warm, salty water flows underneath it according to new research. NASA/Reuters.

Space.com

Although we know the sun to be an unchanging, and even predictable source, of light in our skies, its youthful version some 4.6 billion years ago was quite active. During those formative years, our star spewed solar flares every week or so, despite shining …

Space.com

“With reports of auroras visible to as low as 26 degrees magnetic latitude, this recent storm may compete with some of the lowest-latitude aurora sightings on record over the past five centuries, though scientists are still assessing this ranking,” NASA …

The New York Times

Rocky asteroids cause sky-high streaks as they self-destruct in Earth’s atmosphere with some frequency. But over the weekend, the projectile was plunging toward Earth at a remarkable speed — around 100,000 miles per hour, more than twice that expected by a …

Scientific American

Together, the experiments are “the most advanced demonstrations so far” of the technology needed for a quantum internet, says physicist Tracy Northup at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Each of the three research teams …

Space.com

The ONC observatories are located from the Arctic to the Antarctic and have more than 12,000 sensors recording data — that includes compasses used to measure ocean currents. Concurrent with this month’s explosive solar activity, the compasses recorded …

Phys.Org

Few things in nature are as predictable as ocean tides. Driven by the moon’s and sun’s gravitational pull, these persistent, short-period, and large-magnitude phenomena are apparent in nearly all types of oceanographic and satellite observations.

Arizona State University

In the quest to understand the enigmatic nature of a warm gas-giant exoplanet, Arizona State University researchers have played a pivotal role in uncovering its secrets. WASP-107b has puzzled astronomers for some time, but recent findings, …