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The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week. Here's how to see shooting stars from the dust of Halley's Comet.
Halley's Comet left behind a trail of dust that Earth plows through each year, producing a display …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored shooting stars. Here's how to watch.
A moonless night will let the Geminids shine as bits of space rock burn up in Earth's atmosphere an…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week, but a Hunter's Moon will make shooting stars harder to spot
The Orionids appear when Earth travels through debris from Halley's Comet. But the full moon will l…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Shooting stars beckon in the New Year this weekend. Here's how to spot the fireballs of the Quadrantids meteor shower.
NASA says the Quadrantids are one of the best meteor showers. A bright moon may outshine some of th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Videos show SpaceX's Dragon capsule as it returns to Earth like a 'shooting star'
After six months in outer space, SpaceX's Crew-2 astronauts splashed down off the coast of Florida …
Grace Kay
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The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week. Here's how to see the shooting stars from the dust of Halley's Comet.
After midnight on October 21 and 22, when the Orionids' location has risen high in the sky, find a …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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4 people were arrested after police were tipped off to more than a dozen firearms in a Denver hotel room
Three men and one woman, all in their 40's, were arrested on Friday after police found weapons in t…
Taylor Ardrey
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Here's how this fitness startup got funded by Olympics gold medalist- Abhinav Bindra
FITPASS, the all-access pass to gyms and fitness studios, raised $1 million led Abhinav Bindra and …
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The Leonids meteor shower will send bright green shooting stars across the sky this weekend, early next week. Here's how to see them.
Find a dark spot with a clear view of the sky, ideally far from city lights. Meteor showers are bes…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Tonight is the longest night of the year. You can use it to see a meteor shower and the historic Jupiter-Saturn 'double planet.'
Jupiter and Saturn haven't appeared this close in the night sky in nearly 800 years, and the conjun…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Leonid meteor shower is peaking - here's the best time to look for shooting stars
"Perhaps the key work to remember in meteor observing is patience. Most meteor showers will not pro…
Dave Mosher
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The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored shooting stars. Here's how to spot them.
The asteroid Phaethon left behind the trail of dust that's responsible for the Geminids show severa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Lyrid meteor shower will align with April's 'pink moon.' Here's how to watch it.
The Lyrid meteor shower will align with the "pink moon" this week. But this bright supermoon could …
Ellyn Lapointe
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The Eta Aquarids meteor shower is peaking, giving you the chance to see up to 40 shooting stars an hour. Here's how to watch.
This year, the Eta Aquarids meteor shower is set to be even more stunning than usual, with experts …
Marianne Guenot
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The Quadrantids brings bright fireball meteors to the sky this weekend. Here's how to catch the first meteor shower of the decade.
The best way to maximize your potential of seeing meteors, according to American Meteor Society, is…
Aylin Woodward
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Here's a video of Intel's new flying drone it thinks will replace fireworks someday
The Shooting Star is Intel's first drone created for entertainment light shows. At 280 grams, it's&…
Eugene Kim
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How 20 TV stars hid their pregnancies during shooting
Not every pregnancy can be written into a character's storyline. So shows have to try to be creativ…
Meryl Gottlieb
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How 21 TV stars hid their pregnancies during shooting
Mindy Kaling recently confirmed that she's pregnant. And while the sixth and final season of "The M…
Meryl Gottlieb,Carrie Wittmer
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Here's how a Japanese startup plans to make artificial meteor showers on-demand
"Our shooting stars are intended for large-scale events and we would like to aim for the Olympics,"…