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We're T-minus 4 years to the next Great American Solar Eclipse in 2024

The next Great North American Solar Eclipse is coming. Four years from now, on Monday, April 8, 2024, a total eclipse of the sun will sweep across our continent. The dark shadow cone of the moon — known as the umbra — will trace out a path like a black ...

Coronavirus Turns Urban Life's Roar to Whisper on World's Seismographs

The New York Times

The New York Times

Seismometers may be built to detect earthquakes, but their mechanical ears hear so much more: hurricanes thundering hundreds of miles away and meteoroids exploding in the skies on the other side of the planet. Even the everyday hum of humanity ...

100 days from launch: NASA's Mars rover Perseverance gets its wheels, parachute

We're just 100 days out from the launch of NASA's next Mars rover. Perseverance, the car-size robot at the heart of NASA's life-hunting Mars 2020 mission, is scheduled to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a three-week window that ...

'Super Pink Moon,' the biggest & brightest of 2020, stuns skywatchers around the world (photos)

The full moon on Tuesday night (April 7) was the biggest "supermoon" of the year and skywatchers, at least those with clear skies to see it, are thrilled. Dubbed the "Super Pink Moon," this full moon appeared larger and brighter than usual because the moon ...

Take a wild ride with SpaceX in this 'emergency egress' test for Crew Dragon (video)

NASA and SpaceX took yet another step toward a historic crewed spaceflight next month, this time prepping for a worst-case scenario on the launch pad. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to launch toward the International ...

The Middle Eastern corals that could survive climate change

As seas warm and acidify with climate change, corals worldwide are bleaching – but in the north of the Red Sea there is a ray – or rather reef – of hope. I. Images of white, skeletal coral reefs are becoming an increasingly bleak, if familiar sight. Massive coral ...

'Houston, we've had a problem': Remembering Apollo 13 at 50

Washington Post

Washington Post

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Apollo 13′s astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Even when their oxygen tank ruptured two days later — on April 13. Jim Lovell and Fred Haise insist they're not ...

Flower power: How plants bounce back after crushing blows

Some flowers can recover with remarkable speed after a major accident, such as being walked upon by humans. Scientists found that species including orchid and sweet pea could re-orient themselves in 10-48 hours after an injury. These plants are able to ...

Behold! See the Hubble telescope's iconic 'Pillars of Creation' view in infrared

Scientists have revisited one of the most iconic images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing incredible details in infrared light. The image, dubbed the "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula, was taken imaged by Hubble in 1995. The elephant ...

Coronavirus pandemic forces US Space Force, SpaceX to delay GPS satellite launch

The planned SpaceX launch of a new GPS navigation satellite this month for the U.S. military has been delayed to at least June due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Space Force officials say. In a statement released on Tuesday (April 7), officials with the ...