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'Cataclysmic' solar storm hit Earth around 2687 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal
If this colossal solar storm hit our technologically advanced world the effects would have been devastating.
Massive, 'potentially hazardous' asteroid due to make closest-ever approach to Earth tonight — and you can watch it live
The stadium-sized asteroid 2020 XR is due to make its closest approach to Earth on record early on Dec. 4, and the encounter will be livestreamed for everyone to see.
Moon landing quiz: How quickly can you name all 12 Apollo astronauts that walked on the moon?
Quiz Just 12 people — all American men — have walked on the moon. Can you name all of them in six minutes?
Constellations quiz: Can you name all the animals, objects and mythological figures hiding in the night sky?
Quiz Think you know your constellations? See how many star groups you can name in 10 minutes and try to top the leaderboard.
Black hole quiz: How supermassive is your knowledge of the universe?
Quiz Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the universe?
Where would a compass point in outer space?
On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.
Students' 'homemade' rocket soars faster and farther into space than any other amateur spacecraft — smashing 20-year records
Aftershock II, a new rocket built by students at the University of Southern California, recently broke a number of 20-year-old amateur spaceflight records for altitude, power and speed. It reached more than 470,000 feet above Earth's surface and went "hypersonic."
The Leonid meteor shower is peaking. How to spot 'shooting stars' and 'fireballs' over the US tonight.
The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.
'Unique and extreme': James Webb telescope detects possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a distant exoplanet.
'The bottom line is, I told you so': JWST observations upend standard model of how galaxies form, new study claims
The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for how physics may work on large scales, according to a team of astronomers.
