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Sprites are a type of TLE, which create brilliant flashes of light high above powerful thunderstorms and are difficult to ...
Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian to reach the International Space Station, and answered students’ questions from ...
From their unique vantage point in orbit, astronauts have a clear, unobstructed view of these fleeting events—something ...
NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim and Anne McClain marked Independence Day with a few heartfelt words for their ...
Astronomers and space agencies continue to track the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS streaking through solar system at blistering ...
The comet should remain viewable through telescopes until September as it approaches the Sun, then emerge again in December on its outbound leg.
Astronaut Nichole Ayers recently witnessed a phenomenon known as a sprite from the International Space Station.
These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...
An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.
Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...
The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...