Solar storm from 'cannibal' sun eruption may impact power grids, spawn auroras down to Pennsylvania | Massive comet exploding over Chile 12,000 years ago may have created strange glassy rocks | Astronomers target habitable exoplanets, black holes and inclusivity as top priorities for next decade
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A powerful 'cannibal' sun eruption may affect Earth's power grids and create abnormally strong northern lights displays tonight (Nov. 4), official say.
Be grateful you weren't in what is now Chile's Atacama Desert 12,000 years ago. Scientists behind the work now think that all those years ago, one or more huge comets exploded together in the skies over the region.
We now have a rough sketch of what the next decade could bring in astronomy and astrophysics: the hunt for habitable exoplanets, black hole research and a new space telescope.
The Federal Communications Commission granted the aerospace giant permission on Wednesday (Nov. 3), which places Boeing into an increasingly crowded market for service against giants such as SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon's planned Kuiper constellations.
State media reported the second cluster of Yaogan-32 satellites flew to space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near the Gobi Desert. Watch a video of the launch.
A French astronaut in space shared his current view of Earth and a call to address global warming as international leaders meet at a United Nations summit on climate.
The giant structure, called a protocluster, contains more than 60 galaxies and is 11 billion light-years from Earth, so far away that scientists are observing a part of the universe that is only 3 billion years old.
China's mysterious space-tech test is not a sign that the sky is falling, experts say. The hypersonic vehicle ended up missing its target by just 24 miles (39 kilometers) or so.
The distant blue planet Uranus reaches its closest point to Earth today (Nov. 4). While it's a tough world to spot with your naked eye, with binoculars or a telescope you'll have a chance to see this fascinating world at its best.
In "Space Titans," a new documentary launching today (Nov. 4), SpaceX founder Elon Musk shares the secret of his company's Falcon 9 rocket success. See it today on Discovery+.
The first full trailer for Roland Emmerich's new sci-fi devastation spectacular, "Moonfall" has arrived and it promises epic destruction on an unprecedented scale. Cool.
