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While skywatchers around the world have been raving about the performance of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, there has been talk on social media of yet another spectacular comet due to make its appearance at the end of this month.

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A tan, gaseious Jupiter hangs in black space, layered like a cross section of. Jupiter, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on Jan. 5, 2024. ( …

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A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as astronomers had feared. “Our findings suggest that the risk of being hit by a large …

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This includes keeping track of things like weather, but also human-induced drivers of global warming such as the emissions of greenhouse gasses, deforestation and changes in seasonal ice coverage in Arctic and Antarctic regions. That’s …

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Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have identified a way to produce edible biomass, aka …

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BOSTON – The northern lights could once again put on a show in Massachusetts tonight and Friday night, according to the latest aurora forecast. You could say New England is becoming the “new Iceland.” Over the last several months the sun has been …

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Phys.Org

In 2015, Bill Nye was on Marine One with President Obama. The television personality and science advocate was officially there for an Earth Day event, but he took the opportunity to talk to the president about space exploration, and specifically, …

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Get ready, aurora chasers: There’s a good chance you’ll be able to catch a nice light show by the end of the week! Forecasters with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) are …

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Updated 9 p.m. Eastern with Gerstenmaier comments. WASHINGTON — As SpaceX prepares for the test flight of its Starship vehicle, NASA is closely watching as it waits for the company to achieve the next milestones on development of the lunar lander …