This satellite image provided by NOAA shows clouds over North America on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Credit: NOAA via AP Some who hope to witness Monday’s total solar eclipse may…
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Which type of clouds make it harder to see the April 8 solar eclipse?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With less than a week away from the solar eclipse, weather forecasters are keeping an eye on the cloud cover, which can make or break a…
DJI Mini 4 Pro review
One of DJI’s more unexpected launches late in 2023, considering the DJI Mini 3 Pro was only launched in spring 2022, was the DJI Mini 4 Pro, which has become…
Simulating ejecta on titanium spacecraft surfaces under re-entry extreme environment conditions
Credit: University of Sheffield The upper-stage helium tank of the Ariane 3 that was launched in 1985 was recovered in Uganda in 2002 after re-entry. Molten aluminum splashes were discovered…
Boeing’s 1st Starliner astronaut launch delayed again, to May 6
The first crewed launch of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule has been delayed by an additional five days, to May 6. NASA and Boeing had been targeting May 1 for the…
New research uses coaxial ‘dish’ antenna to scan for dark matter
A rendering of the BREAD design. The “Hershey’s Kiss”-shaped structure funnels potential dark matter signals to the copper-colored detector on the left. The detector is compact enough to fit on…
Stars, planets and more will be visible during the total solar eclipse on April 8. Here’s where to look
An observer in or near the path of totality for the April 8 solar eclipse, can make useful observations of the appearance of the moon’s shadow projected on the Earth’s…
New ‘Eclipse Watch’ tool shows eclipses from space any time
An eclipse-like image captured by the LASCO instrument on the SOHO spacecraft includes a picture of the moon added for scale. To see the latest image, visit https://eclipse.helioviewer.org/. Credit: NASA/Eclipse…
The 2024 total solar eclipse is 1 week away. Here’s what you need to know.
There’s only one week left until the total solar eclipse 2024 is visible across North America! Are you ready? Memories will be made when the moon crosses in front of…
Distant ‘space snowman’ unlocks mystery of how some dormant deep space objects become ‘ice bombs’
This image was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on Jan. 1, 2019 during a flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research…
