Sure, you may know the ‘super blood wolf moon eclipse’ is coming to a sky near you this weekend. But what does it mean?
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Alien life possible on nearby ‘Super-Earth,’ scientists announce
Scientists said that if water exists on the planet, geothermal heating could create a subsurface ocean where primitive life might exist.
1,500 miles of snow: Weekend winter storm to roar from Denver to New York City
A sprawling winter storm will spread snow along a 1,500-mile path from Denver to New York City.
Oceans hottest on record in 2018, warming faster than previously thought
The world’s seas were the warmest on record in 2018, scientists announced Thursday. Also, oceantemperatures are rising faster than previously thought.
Alien signals? More bizarre ‘fast radio bursts’ detected from outer space
More “fast radio bursts” – bright, short-lived pulses of radio waves that come from across the universe – have been detected by astronomers.
Light from dawn of time discovered
An extremely distant quasar has been discovered, one that astronomers say emits light from the dawn of time, a new study suggests.
Milky Way could hit another galaxy in 2 billion years, sending solar system flying
“Spectacular” cosmic collision with the Large Magellenic Cloud might knock our solar system into intergalactic space, British astronomers say.
USA had world’s 3 costliest natural disasters in 2018, and Camp Fire was the worst
Causing damage at a cost of $16.5 billion, the devastating Camp Fire was the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2018.
Antarctic ice melts to January record low
The amount of sea ice aroundAntarctica has melted to a record low for January, scientists announced Thursday. It’s the smallest January area since records began in 1978.
NASA photographs icy, reddish ‘space snowman’ discovered beyond Pluto
The “snowman” is roughly 1 billion miles away from Pluto – making it the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.