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Perseid meteor shower 2020 weather forecast: Here's what to expect in the US for tonight's peak!

If you're planning to spend the overnight hours attempting to catch a view of tonight's peak of the 2020 Perseid meteor shower, your local sky conditions will play a deciding role in what you see. Will any "shooting stars" be visible? Or will this year's Perseids ...

NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting space telescope wraps up primary mission

NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS space telescope is done with its primary mission, but its search for strange new worlds goes on. TESS (short for "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite") wrapped up its two-year primary mission on July 4, having discovered 66 ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower of 2020 Peaks tonight! Here's how to watch live.

The Perseids are back! This week, you can catch the 2020 Perseid meteor shower, a favorite of many skywatchers, as it peaks thanks to four different webcasts over the next two days from the Virtual Telescope Project, NASA, Lowell Observatory and the ...

Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with salty water under the surface, NASA mission finds

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CNN

(CNN) Ceres is a dwarf planet and the largest known object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. And now we know it may be an ocean world with intriguing geologic activity taking place on and just below its surface, according to new research.

Laser beams reflected between Earth and moon boost science

Artist's rendering of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles ...

Images show Martian night sky pulsing with ultraviolet light

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EarthSky

Vast areas of Mars' nightside atmosphere glow and pulsate with ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share. NASA Video. 616K subscribers. Subscribe · Mars Nightglow Animation ...

Physicists accelerate the hunt for revolutionary artificial atomic materials

Scientists at the University of Bath have taken an important step towards understanding the interaction between layers of atomically thin materials arranged in stacks. They hope their research will speed up the discovery of new, artificial materials, leading to ...

Scientists create compact particle accelerators that drive electron beams nearer speed of light

Scientists have successfully developed a pocket-sized particle accelerator capable of projecting ultra-short electron beams with laser light at more than 99.99% of the speed of light. To achieve this result, the researchers have had to slow down light to match ...

Network of sounds: New research reveals the magic secret of human networks

A group of Israeli researchers recruited 16 violinists to study the behavior of a human network and find out what sets it apart from other networks, such as animals, computers, and other objects. The results combine science and esthetics, and also evoke ...

The Moon and stars are a compass for nocturnal animals – but light pollution is leading them astray

Many nocturnal animal species use light from the moon and stars to migrate at night in search of food, shelter or mates. But in our recent study we uncovered how artificial light is disrupting these nightly migrations. Electric lighting is transforming our world.