What will happen during the total lunar eclipse of March 2025 ?

More than two years have passed since most of North America saw a total lunar eclipse. So be sure to put a big circle on your calendar for Thursday, March 13. The viewing circumstances for the total eclipse of the full moon that night will be as good as it can get for much o…

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Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March.

A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere. The best views will be from North America and South America. Parts of Africa and Europe may catch a glimpse. Lunar eclipses happen when the moon, Earth and sun alig…

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NASA delays launch of newest space telescope to search for life’s key ingredients.

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, will have to wait a bit longer to lift off to space together, according to the space agency. Both missions were expected to lau…

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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape.

Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structur…

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SpaceX rolls huge Super Heavy booster to pad ahead of Starship Flight 8 launch.

Starship hardware has made it to the pad ahead of a planned liftoff this week. SpaceX posted photos on X today (Feb. 25) showing Super Heavy, the giant first stage of its Starship megarocket, being lifted onto the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas. The …

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See Mercury at its best in the night sky over the next 2 weeks.

We now have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many astronomy guide books refer to as the most difficult of the naked-eye planets to see. The planet in question is Mercury. Beginning now and running through the end of the second week of March, this somewhat overgrown…

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Private Blue Ghost moon lander captures amazing footage of Earth behind and lunar surface below.

Firefly Aerospace is primed for a lunar landing attempt on Sunday (March 2) following a series of successful maneuvers in lunar orbit. The company's Blue Ghost lander entered lunar orbit on Feb. 13, after launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15. It has since b…

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Blue Origin launches 'Perfect 10' space tourists on New Shepard rocket.

Blue Origin launched its 10th space tourism mission this morning (Feb. 25), sending six paying passengers to suborbital space. After a slight delay due to a hold, Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard vehicle lifted off from the company's West Texas site today at 10:5…

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Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean

Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean. The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a …

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SpaceX targeting Feb. 28 for next launch of Starship megarocket.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again this week, if all goes according to plan. The company is planning to launch Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for the eighth time on Friday (Feb. 28), Elon Musk said via X yesterday (Feb. 23). The 403.5-…

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What makes Mars the 'Red' Planet ?

Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as just the "Red Planet" — but new research suggests the Martian shade isn't just lovely to look at. The chemistry behind Mars' rosy hue may actually hold important informat…

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SpaceX launches 22 Starlink internet satellites from California.

SpaceX launched another set of its Starlink internet satellites from southern California on Saturday evening (Feb 22). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station at 8:38 p.m. EST (5:38 p.m. local time or 0138 GMT Feb. 23)…

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More than 200,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship.

More than 200,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conqu…

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Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer dies.

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning soul singer best known for her celebrated interpretations of romantic ballads like “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” as well as her professional collaborations and social activism, has died, according to a statement from her publicist. She…

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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like.

It might not look like much in this image, but this is the asteroid that has made a major news impact in 2025. That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-48 chance of impacting Earth in 2032. For obvious reasons, astronomers are desperate to…

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20 years of satellite data reveal 'staggering' levels of glaciers melting, sea levels rising.

Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ice loss has driven sea levels to rise at an accelerated pace, according to a decades-long comprehensive analysis based on satellite data. A time series of yearly ice …

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Pope Francis has peaceful night but remains in critical condition.

Pope Francis had a peaceful night in the hospital as he was being treated with oxygen, the Vatican said Sunday, following a respiratory scare a day earlier that prompted Catholics worldwide to pray for the pontiff.  Francis remained in critical condition and was receiving hi…

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Chinese team finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans via same route as Covid-19.

A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by Shi Zhengli – a leading virologist known as the “batwoman” due to her extensiv…

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Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP.

In a remarkable statement Thursday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the International Space Station should be deorbited "as soon as possible." This comment from Musk will surely set off a landmine in the global space community, with broad implications. And it appears…

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Astrophotographer captures 'rare' planetary parade as 7 planets align in the night sky.

Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured this stunning photograph of the seven-planet alignment on Feb. 22 from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, U.K. Currently, skywatchers have a rare opportunity to witness this planetary parade in the evening sky, with seven planets aligned. For mo…

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