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After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three ...

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SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4). A Falcon ...

An Electron rocket carrying the QPS-SAR-12 satellite, nicknamed Kushinada-I, is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab 's New Zealand site tonight at 11:45 p.m. EDT (0345 GMT and 3:45 p.m. local New ...

But researchers found that the space hurricane formed under a northward-aligned IMF, which typically "closes the door" to geomagnetic activity. As a result, these storms often go unnoticed by standard ...

A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.

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The ever-shifting phases of Earth's moon present a wealth of targets for amateur astronomers to explore, ranging from ...

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

The highest-profile NS-34 passenger is Justin Sun, a 34-year-old billionaire who founded the blockchain platform Tron. In ...