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No, you didn't see a solar flare during the total eclipse — but you may have seen something just as special

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 10:02am
Several media outlets have incorrectly claimed that explosive solar flares were spotted during the April 8 total solar eclipse. But there were no flares during totality, so what did people see?
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Fallout and the Space Age: The franchise's connections and nods to the final frontier

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 9:00am
The Fallout video game franchise (now also a streaming series) is known for its unique take on the post-apocalypse, but it's also quite interested in outer space.
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Sierra Space wants to drop cargo from orbit to anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 8:00am
Sierra Space has unveiled a new "global payload delivery" system known as Ghost that is designed to drop vital payloads from orbit to anywhere on Earth's surface within 90 minutes.
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DJI Avata 2 drone review

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 5:58am
The DJI Avata 2 offers an incredibly tantalizing FPV experience that can be as simple or as complicated to fly as you require.
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Scientists identify origin of the 'BOAT' — the brightest cosmic blast of all time

Fri, 04/12/2024 - 5:00am
Astronomers have discovered that the BOAT, the most powerful gamma-ray burst ever detected, came from the supernova death of a massive star 2.4 million light-years away.
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My formal 2024 solar eclipse apology

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 6:00pm
I used to be an eclipse hater, and now I'm not. That's the story.
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Achoo! Baby star 'sneezes' tell astronomers a lot about their development

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 5:00pm
Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astronomers using the ALMA telescope array have found.
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A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting the moon. It was just a lunar neighbor (photos)

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 3:00pm
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with another spacecraft orbiting the moon.
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Monster star gains magnetic personality following stellar merger

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 2:26pm
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with another star.
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Car-sized asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 1:29pm
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, asteroid 2024 GJ2 will miss the planet by the skin of its teeth.
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'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May the 4th debut on Disney Plus (video)

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 1:00pm
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our screens with Tales of the Empire, a brand-new anthology series.
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Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 12:33pm
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.
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Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching the moon block the sun was a transportation adventure (exclusive)

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 12:00pm
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two ancestral lines to meet, eclipse-style, at a Canadian rail station near an airport.
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Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, dies at 89

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 12:00pm
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyonov logged almost 12 days in space and orbited Earth 189 times.
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Space weather can make it hard to predict satellite trajectories. Here's why that's a problem

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 10:00am
Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad space weather hits.
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Stars make a bigger mess in old galaxies, and scientists just figured out why

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 9:00am
More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circular orbits of stars like our sun in the Milky Way.
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Top total solar eclipses to look out for over the next decade

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 8:00am
We explore seven of the best solar eclipses to look out for over the next 10 years.
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Japanese astronauts will join NASA moon landings in return for lunar rover

Thu, 04/11/2024 - 6:00am
The first non-American to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut. Two JAXA astronauts will fly on future Artemis landing missions in return for Japan providing a pressurized moon rover.
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Why Peter Higgs leaves a massive legacy in the field of physics

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 6:00pm
On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the theoretical physicist has left on physics is immense.
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See Jupiter close to a crescent moon (Mars near Saturn, too) in the 'View a Planet Day' night sky

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 4:58pm
Jupiter and a slim crescent moon are the stand-out night sky sight in the evening sky right now.
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