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Mars may be known as the Red Planet, but under the right cosmic conditions, its skies shimmer emerald with auroras — and for the first time, scientists think they can predict the spectacle. Being able to predict Martian auroras, which result from solar storms that also unleash harmful radiation, could provide future astronauts with crucial warning and time to take …

Off eastern Nevada’s U.S. Route 50, the “loneliest road in America,” the rugged and remote wilderness of Great Basin National Park awaits. Among its notable features, the park contains the 13,063-foot (3,982-meter) summit of Wheeler Peak, as well as Nevada’s last remaining glacier, a large collection of caves, and groves of Great Basin bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva)—trees that can live …

Off eastern Nevada’s U.S. Route 50, the “loneliest road in America,” the rugged and remote wilderness of Great Basin National Park awaits. Among its notable features, the park contains the 13,063-foot (3,982-meter) summit of Wheeler Peak, as well as Nevada’s last remaining glacier, a large collection of caves, and groves of Great Basin bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva)—trees that can live …

Nights are about to get longer and colder. The autumnal equinox is on Sept. 22 — a day of equal daylight and darkness that happens twice per year. The fall equinox marks the point when days start to get chillier and shorter than the evenings as the Earth’s northern hemisphere tilts away from the sun. With more evening hours to …

“Scientists Warn Of Danger”: New Detector Tested To Help Spacecraft Evade Orbital Debris As Global Powers Clash Over Crowded Skies  Rude Baguette Source link

If the weather cooperates Tuesday night, eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents, along with the rest of the Mid-Atlantic, may have good seats for a rocket launch. The launch, weather permitting, will take place at a NASA facility on the Delmarva peninsula in Wallops Island, Virginia, just south of Ocean City, Maryland. The launch window opens at 10:30 p.m. and …

Science & Exploration 26/08/2025 1379 views 24 likes In the past decade, the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the nature, history, and behaviour of billions of stars. Our pioneering stargazer has reshaped our view of the skies around us like no other, revealing that star clusters are more connected than expected over vast distances. The best Milky Way map, by Gaia (artist …

NORTH CAROLINA (WTVD) — The TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission launch attempt was scrubbed on Sunday and Monday due to cloud cover and high sea states in the recovery area. NASA is now targeting Tuesday night (Aug. 26) for the first launch. Those in the Mid-Atlantic region, and portions of North Carolina, may catch a glimpse of the rocket, weather permitting. …

The dark skies surrounding this weekend’s new moon phase present an excellent opportunity to spot a trio of star clusters and stellar alignments embedded in the glowing band of the Milky Way. Star clusters are collections of gravitationally bound stellar bodies that formed from the same cloud of interstellar material. They can range in size from dozens, to thousands of …

Social media has been abuzz with users in Japan reporting sightings of a mysterious object that briefly lit up skies across the country’s west on Tuesday night as it fell. A Kyodo News livestream of a volcano on Sakurajima in Kagoshima Prefecture captured the moment at about 11:08 p.m. An official at the Japan weather agency’s Kagoshima meteorological office said …