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A rare 'Devil comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.
Cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka the Devil comet or Mother of Dragons comet, may be visible …
Ellyn Lapointe
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Astronomers find planet that seems too humongous to be orbiting its parent star!
A group of astronomers has identified a planet over 13 times the mass of Earth in orbit around an u…
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A pro-China propaganda group ran a targeted social media campaign to undermine the US rare earth industry, report says
The group, named Dragonbridge, used fake accounts to post negative messages about the companies acr…
Abby Wallace
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A cluster of sunspots 15 times bigger than Earth could send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday
The cluster of sunspots could send solar weather our way as early as Saturday, though it's difficul…
Marianne Guenot
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The US has a critical need for rare earth minerals that enable clean energy, and this exploration company may have found the largest deposits in North America
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has elevated the urgency of sourcing key elements from within the US, …
Dominick Reuter
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Earth's mysterious core appears to be leaking, leaving scientists baffled
The study suggests the Earth's core may be leaking helium, upheaving the belief that the giant ball…
Marianne Guenot
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Tesla's plan to slash its use of rare-earth metals in future vehicle production sends semiconductor stocks tumbling
Tesla has a history of not meeting its own timelines, so some investors are buying the dip in compa…
Matthew Fox
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In Darkness: Here’s what last week’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse looked like from space!
The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, a space-based apparatus from NASA, managed to capture a sna…
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A huge tornado on the sun released a cloud of hot gas 6 times the size of the Earth
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the moment a cloud of charged plasma escaped the sun and…
Marianne Guenot
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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around Earth.
A dead Russian spacecraft almost crashed into a NASA satellite. The collision would have sent debri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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Sam Altman's $480,000 watch, the Greubel Forsey Invention Piece 1, is so rare only 33 were ever made
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was spotted wearing a Greubel Forsey Invention Piece 1, one of just 33 of the…
Katherine Long
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A mysterious rock orbiting Earth appears to be a chunk of the moon that was blasted away by a meteorite
The discovery could rewrite what we know about potentially dangerous space rocks and help better pr…
Marianne Guenot
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OPINION: Here's how India can end Chinese dominance in rare earths
Existing Bottlenecks Reforms and Solutions The key challenge for India today is …
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Good news for marine life? Study finds ocean oxygen levels remained high even as seas seared in the ancient past
Global warming-exacerbated oxygen loss from the oceans significantly stresses marine life. The ocea…
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Mesmerising NASA videos depict where our CO2 comes from, and where it eventually ends up
In three videos, NASA expresses the voyage of carbon dioxide from source to sink over the course of…
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An amateur astronomer caught one of the brightest fireballs ever seen on Jupiter. Watch the rare video footage.
An asteroid or comet smacked Jupiter on camera. Only a few impacts this big and bright have ever be…
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found the most distant black hole ever growing near the dawn of t…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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The incredible, Earth-saving electric bike is having a moment
While electric cars get all the hype, sales of electric bikes have been booming for years. That's a…
Tim Levin
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A giant eruption covered 'over half the sun,' then crashed into Earth nearly 12 hours earlier than forecast
The sun is getting more active while space-weather forecasters are at a disadvantage. This time we …
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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A rare hybrid solar eclipse to take place on April 20
Among the two solar eclipses marked on the calendar of 2023, the first one will be on April 20, 202…