The vermilion, amethyst and jade ribbons of the northern and southern lights are some of Earth’s most distinctive features. But our planet doesn’t have a monopoly on auroras. Scientists have spied them throughout the solar system, weaving…
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Ultrafast Laser Breakthrough Reveals Light’s Ability to Instantly Transform Properties of Matter
Researchers say they are finally unraveling the effects of ultrafast lasers that can change material states in attoseconds—one-billionth of one-billionth of a second—the time required to complete one light wave’s…
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Global warming is spiralling out of control: Earth could warm by a whopping 7°C by 2200, scientists predict – leading to flooding, famine, and catastrophic heatwaves
Our not-too-distant future relatives could be in for a rough ride – even if we manage to curb our carbon emissions, a new study suggests.
Earth could warm by a whopping 7°C (12.6°F) by 2200 even if CO2 emissions are moderate, according to…
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50 years ago the last Saturn rocket rolled out • The Register
It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.
The super heavy rockets were built and used for nine crewed flights to the Moon from December…
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Neptune’s auroras are captured in great detail by NASA’s Webb telescope
WASHINGTON (AP) — Neptune’s glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Spherules On Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Rover has stumbled across a rather intriguing rock on the rim of the Jezero Crater on Mars. The rock, which was closely examined and photographed by the rover, appears to be made up of hundreds of strange, spherical-shaped…
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Hold onto your hats! Is the ‘blaze star’ T Corona Borealis about to go boom?
A new set of predictions for the so-called “blaze star,” T Corona Borealis suggests the star might go nova on either March 27, November 10, or June 25, 2026. However, other astronomers are skeptical about these predictions, which are based on an…
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After a spacecraft was damaged en route to launch, NASA says it won’t launch
Three weeks ago, NASA revealed that a shipping container protecting a Cygnus spacecraft sustained “damage” while traveling to the launch site in Florida.
Built by Northrop Grumman, Cygnus…
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15 States May See Aurora Borealis
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Geomagnetic storm conditions may bring the northern lights to more U.S. states along the Canadian border on Wednesday, with similar auroral activity expected later this week, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
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Results from global collaboration raise questions about future of universe — Harvard Gazette
New results from the international Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration, which includes researchers from Harvard, suggest that dark energy, widely thought to be a “cosmological constant,” might be weakening over time….
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