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Northern lights (aurora borealis): What they are and how to see them

Learn all about the northern lights, including the science behind their colors, the display's ancient history and how to see the phenomenon.

Mount Etna is 100 feet taller than it was 6 months ago

Satellite imagery reveals that Mount Etna has gotten 100 feet taller in the past six months.

Canadian radar satellites to help Ukraine fight off Russian invasion

Our cosmic block is full of neighbors that we know very little about, but scientists have come up with creative ways to get a peak at the layers of one particular type of planet.

Scientists hail 'the decade of Venus' with 3 new missions on the way

New research provides more details of the dinosaurs’ demise and the composition of the asteroid belt.

Watch Vega launch live

Tune in to ESA Web TV from 02:37 BST / 03:37 CEST on 17 August to watch the Vega launch live.

Did the Moon Ever Have a Magnetosphere?

In a few years, NASA will be sending astronauts to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era (1969-1972). As part of the Artemis Program, the long-term goal is to create the necessary infrastructure for a “sustained program of lunar exploration.” The opportunities this will present for lunar research are profound and will likely result in new discoveries about the formation and evolution of the Moon.

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Vega rocket set to launch next Airbus Pléiades Neo remote sensing satellite

The payload compartment containing the Pléiades Neo 4 Earth observation satellite is lifted into the Vega rocket’s launch pad gantry in preparation for Monday night’s mission. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace

An Airbus-owned commercial optical Earth-imaging satellite and four small CubeSat rideshare payloads are set for launch Monday night from French Guiana aboard a European Vega rocket.

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Rocket Lab announces three back-to-back launches for BlackSky

File photo of Rocket Lab’s privately-owned spaceport on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. Credit: Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab is gearing up for three back-to-back missions beginning later this month from its New Zealand launch base, each carrying two commercial BlackSky Earth-imaging satellites.

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If the First Black Holes Collapsed Directly, Could we Detect Radio Signals From Those Moments?

The universe is littered with supermassive black holes. There’s one a mere 30,000 light-years away in the center of the Milky Way. Most galaxies have one, and some of them are more massive than a billion stars. We know that many supermassive black holes formed early in the universe. For example, the quasar TON 618 is powered by a 66 billion solar mass black hole. Since its light travels nearly 11 billion years to reach us, TON 618 was already huge when the universe was just a few billion years old. So how did these black holes grow so massive so quickly?

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The First Images and Videos from the Double Venus Flyby

Two spacecraft made historic flybys of Venus last week, and both sent back sci-fi-type views of the mysterious, cloud-shrouded planet.

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Satellite photos show Dixie Fire's devastation to California town in before-and-after views

Maxar satellite photos show the devastation of Greenville, California from the Dixie wildfire in August 2021.

You can Tell how big a Black Hole is by how it Eats

Arianespace will launch a new Earth observation satellite for Airbus today (Aug. 15), along with four other tiny satellites and you can watch the liftoff live online.

Witness a Total Lunar Eclipse on Sunday, May 15–16

Walt Disney World Resort has set mid-September for the highly-anticipated and long-awaited opening of Space 220.

Celebrate Perseverance rover's 1-year 'Marsiversary' with these events

Meteorites reveal that so long as groundwater is present, the Martian subsurface is habitable

Winning rovers of lunar polar challenge

Smoke from massive wildfires in Russia's eastern Siberia region has reached the geographic North Pole "for the first time in recorded history," according to NASA.

SpaceX's 1st private astronaut mission, Inspiration4, is just one month from launching into history

In just one month, SpaceX will make history with Inspiration4 — the world's first all-civilian spaceflight — the mission's crew couldn't be more excited.

Matter From Light. Physicists Create Matter and Antimatter by Colliding Just Photons.

In 1905 Albert Einstein wrote four groundbreaking papers on quantum theory and relativity. It became known as Einstein’s annus mirabilis or wonderous year. One was on brownian motion, one earned him the Nobel prize in 1921, and one outlined the foundations of special relativity. But it’s Einstein’s last 1905 paper that is the most unexpected.

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Orionid meteor shower 2021: When, where & how to see it

The Orionid meteor shower is peaks in the early morning of Tuesday, Oct. 22, but a bright moon will disrupt viewing until shortly before dawn.

Two planes report 'bright green UFO' swooping through the clouds over Canada

Two aircrafts flying over Canada reported a "bright green UFO" that disappeared into the clouds on July 30.

Earth rocks collected in 19th century hold clues to finding water on Mars

July 2021 was the single hottest month in history, according to a new NOAA report.


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