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Perseid meteor shower peak this month! New moon bodes well for skywatchers.

Perseid meteors are already beginning to fall in a display that promises to dazzle skywatchers this month. The Perseid meteor shower will peak on the evening of Aug. 12, just four days after the new moon on Aug. 8, so dark skies should be quite favorable for ...

Astronaut captures sparkling 'shooting star' video as Russian space station module falls to Earth

"Atmospheric reentry without a heat shield results in a nice fireball," Pesquet wrote in the post, which also included a French description. "You clearly see smaller pieces of melting metal floating away and adding to the fireworks.".

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Boeing, NASA silent on what's wrong with Starliner

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NASA and Boeing officials remained largely silent Wednesday about what the likely next steps are for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, a day after a much-anticipated test flight was scrubbed because a sensor indicated a valve on the vehicle wasn't in the proper ...

NASA model describes nearby star that resembles early sun

New research led by NASA provides a closer look at a nearby star thought to resemble our young sun. The work allows scientists to better understand what our sun may have been like when it was young, and how it may have shaped the atmosphere of our ...

NASA identifies likely locations of the early molten moon's deep secrets

Shortly after it formed, the moon was covered in a global ocean of molten rock (magma). As the magma ocean cooled and solidified, dense minerals sank to form the mantle layer, while less-dense minerals floated to form the surface crust. Later intense ...

Ingenuity Mars helicopter gearing up for 11th Red Planet flight

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity is getting set for its 11th off-Earth flight, which could happen early Thursday morning (Aug. 5). The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity landed with the Perseverance rover inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. Six weeks later ...

Stars are exploding in dusty galaxies. We just can't always see them

A new study using data from NASA's recently retired Spitzer Space Telescope reports the detection of five supernovae, that going undetected in optical light, had never been seen before. Spitzer saw the universe in infrared light, ...

Jaw-dropping remastered NASA photos celebrate Apollo 15's 50th anniversary

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Commander Jim Irwin, seen above, was one of three astronauts who participated in what has been called the most scientifically intensive moon landing since mankind's arrival. Remastered photo of Lunar Roving ...

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission leaves for its last field trip

This week, NASA's airborne Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission begins its final survey of glaciers that flow from Greenland into the ocean. OMG is completing a six-year mission that is helping to answer how fast sea level is going to rise in the next five, ...

Study reveals how smell receptors work

The channel pore (blue) of an olfactory receptor dilates (pink) when an odor molecule binds the receptor. Credit: Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University. All senses ...