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The Leonid meteor shower is peaking. How to spot 'shooting stars' and 'fireballs' over the US tonight.

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.

LiveScience

The New 'Alien' TV Show Just Pulled a Clever Canon Trick

'Alien: Earth' is keeping the origin of the creatures familiar, allowing fans to focus on scares rather than math.

Inverse

Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests

The clonal quaking aspen known as Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old.

LiveScience

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Chinese private rocket launches 1st satellite for international customer

CAS Space successfully launched 15 satellites into Earth orbit, including one for its first foreign client, the Sultanate of Oman.

Space

Five animals that behave differently in moonlight

Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously – a phenomenon so spectacular it can be seen from space.

The Conversation

OPINION - The London Question: should these pro-Palestine marches be allowed?

If you are a liberal, as Londoners should be — this is the second most multicultural city on earth — you can hold two ideas in your head at once. The first is that the so-called “pro-Palestine” marches in London — I doubt their “pro” nature, as some seem keener…

Evening Standard

China reveals reusable cargo shuttle design for Tiangong space station (video)

China has unveiled the design of a reusable winged shuttle to take cargo to and from the country's Tiangong space station.

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Shell wins appeal against landmark climate ruling to cut emissions

Shell had previously been ordered to cut its carbon emissions by 2030 in line with Paris climate accords

The Independent UK

Andor season 2 and Alien: Earth get new teasers in new Disney Plus trailer – as well as fresh looks at Marvel's 2025 slate

Andor and Alien: Earth premiere in 2025

Total Film

DP World Tour Championship Picks, Predictions And Odds

Three of the Golf Monthly team have picked out a couple of players each who we believe will be in contention at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship

Golf Monthly

Earth from space: Giant 'phantom lake' dotted with stripy gold islands shimmers in Australian outback

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

LiveScience

When the moon is directly overhead, a person's weight decreases: Why?

When the Moon is directly overhead, a person’s weight experiences a slight decrease due to the gravitational pull exerted by the Moon. This phenomenon, while subtle, is a fascinating example of how gravitational forces affect weight on Earth.

The Times of India

Right now, the Sun is far more active than predicted – and small satellites are paying the price

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. That was always going to happen. In fact, Binar means “fireball” in the Noongar language of the First Nations people of Perth.

The Conversation

Expect more earthquakes as latest Muswellbrook event linked to August 'swarm'

The quake has caused power outages across the region.

Newcastle Herald

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Halo 2's playable E3 2003 demo is an astounding feat of preservation, and everything great about PC gaming

Modders are the best.

The Conversation

Evidence from Snowball Earth found in ancient rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak – it’s a missing link

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth, endured for tens of millions of years.

Space

What a 2nd Trump administration could mean for NASA and space exploration

Former President Donald J. Trump's return to the White House next January will likely bring big changes to NASA's Artemis program and a renewed sense of urgency to a crewed landing on the moon.

Space

Starlink satellite falls to Earth, burns up as stunning fireball over US (video)

A brilliant fireball that lit up the skies over four U.S. states this weekend is reported to be from the fiery reentry of a SpaceX Starlink satellite.

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At 60 years, monument to NASA's Project Mercury still stands, but what of its time capsule?

A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the contents of its time capsule not to be opened until 2464?

Digital Camera World

I had no idea Google Earth Studio has this game-changing feature for photographers

Plan photo shoots and even preview the results with this brilliant feature of Google Earth Studio!

The Independent UK

When to catch the last supermoon of the year

Astronomers say better catch this week's supermoon

The Conversation

Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Space

SpaceX rocket launches Koreasat-6A satellite, lands Falcon 9 booster on record-tying 23rd flight (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the KoreaSat-6A telecom satellite today. It was be the 23rd flight for the rocket's first stage, tying a company record.

The Conversation

How we developed sign language for ten of the trickiest climate change terms

The Conversation is proud to publish this article as British sign language-first in video form with the translation written in full beneath.

The Conversation

A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes on, we’re steadily learning more about the exoplanets we’ve already detected: their sizes, what they’re made of and whether they have atmospheres.

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