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By now, you’ve probably seen more than a few stunning pictures of Monday’s solar eclipse, a special treat even if you weren’t lucky enough to see it yourself from the path of totality. For some people, though, it wasn’t enough just to look up. The overachievers among eclipse viewers flew through the air, skied down mountains and made use of…

Worried you might have hurt your eyes watching the eclipse?If they’re just a bit sore or dry, it doesn’t necessarily mean anything bad happened. It’s normal for your eyes to tire from staring at something in the distance for a long time. If you were diligent about wearing eclipse glasses or watching the eclipse through a pinhole, you don’t need…

By Mike Wendling in Chicago and Emma Vardy in TexasBBC News8 April 2024, 07:32 BSTUpdated 1 hour agoTo play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browserVideo caption, What will the weather be like for the solar eclipse?Eclipse watchers are keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of a solar eclipse that will plunge a wide…

Weather Update, April 7, 4:00 AM ET: The weather forecast in the story below still largely holds, but things are more unsettled in the southern US, with forecasts now calling for thunderstorms from Dallas up to Indianapolis. So, keep that potential danger in mind (and keep an eye on forecasts) when making eclipse plans.Elsewhere, the best chance…

Enlarge / A Voyager space probe in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1977. Engineers have determined why NASA's Voyager 1 probe has been transmitting gibberish for nearly five months, raising hopes of recovering humanity's most distant spacecraft.…

SpaceX is continuing to gear up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket.On Thursday (April 4), SpaceX announced via X that it has moved a Starship first stage, a 33-engine booster called Super Heavy, to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas. That post also shared two photos of the giant, stainless-steel booster clutched…

US News solar eclipse By Jesse O’Neill Published April 3, 2024, 6:10 p.m. ET Counterfeit solar eclipse glasses made in China that could leave users with “temporarily impaired vision” or “permanent blindness” are being sold in the US, officials cautioned. The American…

A big piece of Chinese space junk crashed to Earth over Southern California early Tuesday morning (April 2), putting on quite a show for observers in the Golden State.The fall created a blazing fireball witnessed by people from the Sacramento area all the way down to San Diego, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS). As of Tuesday…

The magnetic moment of the muon has posed a scientific puzzle due to the slight difference between its theoretical and experimental values, suggesting interactions with unknown particles or forces. Research involving advanced quantum simulations has started to unravel these discrepancies, offering insights into the fundamental properties of…

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks – also known as the “devil comet” and the “Mother of Dragons” comet – is currently visible in the night skies of the northern hemisphere, providing a unique spectacle for both amateur stargazers and professional astronomers. This Halley-type comet, which orbits the Sun every 71 years and has a nucleus about 30 kilometers in…