A TikTok account pretending to be the NASA Curiosity rover has fooled people. A fake video showing the “night sky on Mars” allegedly filmed by NASA’s Curiosity Rover has fooled thousands on TikTok and even a couple of news websites. The TikTok account that the video has come from is called “nasa.curiosity” and its profile picture is even the NASA …
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An extremely bright meteor lit up the night sky over Japan on Tuesday night. It could be seen from hundreds of miles away. The colossal fireball blazed across the skies of western Japan. The incredible sight was captured on dash cams and surveillance cameras on Kyushu, the southwesternmost main island in Japan, and Osaka, a major city on Japan’s largest …
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“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …
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A huge fireball dashed across the skies of western Japan, shocking residents and dazzling stargazers, though experts said it was a natural phenomenon and not an alien invasion. Videos and photos emerged online of the extremely bright ball of light visible for hundreds of miles shortly after 11.00pm local time (1400 BST) on Tuesday. “A white light I had never …
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The creator of Apple’s Hijack is back with a new thriller starring Dominic West and Sienna Miller. George Kay has penned War, a legal series for HBO and Sky, which have handed the show a two-season order. The Crown’s West plays tech titan Morgan Henderson and Anatomy of a Scandal’s Miller stars as his estranged wife, international film star Carla Duval in …
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“Punctum” may sound like type of punctuation, but to some scientists, it constitutes what may be a brand new type of cosmic object. In a new interview with Gizmodo, Elena Shablovinskaya, a radio astronomer at Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) and Germany’s Max Planck Institute who led the team behind the find, waxed prolific about the bright dot she and her …
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Updated on: Aug 20, 2025 05:03 am IST Meteors are when meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere, or of any other planet, at high speed and burn up, resulting in fireballs or ‘shooting stars’. A fireball meteor tore through the Earth’s atmosphere and lit up the sky with bright blue light in Japan’s Kyushu and Shikoku, with Fukuoka Airport’s camera catching …
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Mercury will be farthest from the sun on Tuesday (Aug. 19), granting early risers a perfect opportunity to spot the fleet-footed world somewhat separated from the glare of our parent star. Mercury treads such a tight orbit around the sun that it never strays far from the horizon. This makes it one of the trickiest planets to see, especially compared …
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August is a great month for the Milky Way. getty Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere). Check my main feed for more in-depth articles on stargazing, astronomy, eclipses and more. The Night Sky This Week: August 18-24, 2025 This week offers some stunning …
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Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), a legendary writer of science and science fiction, once noted in “The Solar System and Back,” that the planet Mercury is rarely visible when it is truly dark. “I suspect, in fact,” he observed, “that many people today (when the horizon is generally much dirtier and the sky much hazier with the glare of artificial light than …
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