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Watch November full moon rise today in free livestream

November 15th, 2024 by

Don’t miss the Beaver Moon! The last supermoon of the year.

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Aurora activity is just getting started. Here’s why the best northern lights are yet to come.

November 15th, 2024 by

Mark your diaries for the 2026/27 aurora season could be a big one!

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Did NASA’s Viking landers accidentally kill life on Mars? Why one scientist thinks so

November 15th, 2024 by

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA’s Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were searching for. In this Q&A, we ask why.

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SpaceX rolls Starship Flight 6 Super Heavy rocket to pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch (photos)

November 15th, 2024 by

SpaceX has rolled the Super Heavy first stage of its Starship megarocket out to the launch pad to prep for the vehicle’s sixth test flight, which is scheduled for Monday (Nov. 18).

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NASA rockets seed artificial clouds below glowing auroras in Norway (photo)

November 15th, 2024 by

NASA’s VortEx experiment launched sounding rockets that created clouds, which will help scientists better understand how energy flows between layers of the atmosphere.

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FAA creating new committee to update launch regulations

November 15th, 2024 by

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is creating a new committee to review and update its “Part 450” launch and reentry licensing rule.

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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system’s planets and moons grew

November 15th, 2024 by

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system.

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Brilliant fireball explodes over North America as satellites capture flash from space (video)

November 15th, 2024 by

Cameras and NOAA weather satellites captured the moment when a meteor exploded into a brilliant fireball over the western U.S. and parts of western Canada.

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