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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Everything We Know About the Asteroid That Might Hit the Moon in 2032
A strike would release around eight megatons of energy, more than enough to make it the most energetic lunar impact ever observed by humans.
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Photo: Aumphotography / Getty Images A Rare Blood Moon Eclipse Is Coming: Here’s How to See It
It will only last an hour. Don’t miss it!
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images The Sun Just Released Four Powerful Solar Flares in One Day, Scientists Confirm
Over a 20-hour window in early February, the Sun released four major solar flares.
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Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images Everything You Need to Know About the ‘Solar Eclipse of the Century,’ Including How to See It
Two total solar eclipses are coming up, with one widely labeled as the “eclipse of the century.”
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SB/Getty Images Scientists Captured the Explosive Birth of a Solar Flare on Video
Researchers have finally caught a major solar flare in the act of being born. And even better, they got the entire thing on video.
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Handout/Handout/Getty Images All Those Little Red Dots in Space Might Be Young Black Holes
These black holes are buried inside thick cocoons of gas that hide most of the signals that astronomers typically use to identify them.
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Photo: Dencake / Getty Images The Moon’s Far Side Tells a Very Different Story Than the One We See From Earth
The only explanation that fits involves extreme heat generated by a massive impact.
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Christophe Lehenaff/Getty Images You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room on the Moon, If You Can Afford It
The moon hotel hasn’t welcomed guests yet, but it’s certainly welcoming money.
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Alex Wong/Staff/Getty Images NASA’s Pandora Mission Will Help the James Webb Telescope Find New Habitable Planets
If Pandora functions as it’s designed to, it’ll help us figure out if there’s life out there in the universe.
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