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Aurora alert: Ongoing powerful geomagnetic storm could spark more northern lights across the US tonight

Northern lights may once again be visible deep into mid latitudes tonight as geomagnetic storm conditions continue to wreak havoc with Earth's magnetic field.

Space

Severe G4 geomagnetic storm sparks northern lights across US and beyond (photos)

The speedy solar storm arrived in style, sparking stunning aurora displays as far south as California and New Mexico.

Space

Super-magnetic dead star throws a violent temper tantrum as NASA X-ray spacecraft looks on

NASA's X-ray space telescope IXPE has made the first observation of polarized light emerging from an outbursting magnetar, neutron stars that possess the universe's strongest magnetic fields.

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Space photo of the week: Pink 'raindrops' on the sun captured in greatest detail ever

Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

LiveScience

Trump to withdraw Jared Isaacman's nomination as NASA chief

The White House is pulling the nomination of Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, saying that the next agency chief should be "in complete alignment" with President Trump's agenda.

Space

Billie Piper? 'Doctor Who' Season 2's Regeneration Twist, Explained

The 'Doctor Who' Season 2 finale, "The Reality War," just dropped a bombshell of a twist, bringing back a familiar face as the 16th Doctor.

Inverse

SpaceX adds 27 Starlink satellites to constellation after successful launch from California (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with 27 Starlink internet broadband satellites from southern California on Saturday, May 31, 2025.

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Aurora alert: Severe geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as Alabama and northern California tonight

Attention aurora chasers! Powerful geomagnetic storm conditions could trigger northern lights at mid-latitudes tonight as a coronal mass ejection impact is imminent.

Space

Blue Origin launches 1st New Zealander to reach space, 5 others on latest New Shepard suborbital flight (video)

Blue Origin completed its 12th human spaceflight today (May 31), flying six passengers on a 10-minute trip beyond the Karman Line and back.

Space

Watch a brilliant 'fireball' meteor explode over China on May 28 (video)

It was likely a sporadic meteor unrelated to any major shower.

Space

Venus is at its farthest from the sun on June 1: Here's how to see the bright 'morning star' this weekend

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune.

Space

Does alien life smell like the sea?

It might or might not be the smell of aliens, but dimethyl sulfide — and its funky odor — definitely gets around

Salon

Are there billions more people on Earth than we thought? If so, it’s no bad thing

A study suggests the global population has been undercounted – but we shouldn’t let the overpopulation alarmists win the argument, says academic and writer Jonathan Kennedy

The Guardian - UK

Helldivers 2 sees the Battle for Super Earth end in victory, so here's how it happened

Helldivers 2 sees the Battle for Super Earth end in victory, with players rallying to defend against the Illuminate invasion.

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'Cosmic miracle!' James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest galaxy ever seen

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, discovering the "mother of all early galaxies," a record-breaking distant object that existed just 280 billion years after the Big Bang.

The Mary Sue

The 10 Best Sci-Fi Books About Aliens

Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi once asked, “if we live in an infinite universe with infinite capacity for life, why haven’t we seen any aliens?” This question is known as the Fermi Paradox – left unanswered until now. Where are all the aliens? Why, they’re in these 10 sci-fi books!…

Space

Europe wants to land a tiny spacecraft on the infamous asteroid Apophis in 2029

ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also looking into a possible Apophis effort but faces funding issues.

Euronews

China's latest spacecraft aims to bring 'groundbreaking' samples back from asteroid near Mars

The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary exploration".

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Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN

Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency says

Cycling News

'The race is about embracing the unknown' - Morgan Aguirre works on mental game for second attempt at Unbound 200

US rider leads Gravel Earth Series standings after two wins this spring in Europe

Fortune

U.S. trade rep says China still restricts rare earths as Trump accuses Beijing of violating deal

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said China is "slow rolling their compliance, which is completely unacceptable and has to be addressed."

Space

A fireball over desert mountains | Space photo of the day for May 30, 2025

A brilliant meteor streak is captured as it plunges through Earth's atmosphere over Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.

LiveScience

What goes up must come down: How megaconstellations like SpaceX's Starlink network pose a grave safety threat to us on Earth

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.

LiveScience

Giant 'senior citizen' sunspot on 3rd trip around the sun could break a century-old record

A large sunspot has just reappeared on the sun's Earth-facing surface, almost two months after it first emerged. The unusually old dark patch remains stable and could be on course to become the longest-lived sunspot on record, experts claim.

LiveScience

'No radio astronomy from the ground would be possible anymore': Satellite mega-swarms are blinding us to the cosmos — and a critical 'inflection point' is approaching

Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers' ability to detect important signals from across the universe. If left unchecked, we could reach an "inflection point" beyond which we can no longer properly study the cosmos, researchers warn.

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