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Halloween night sky 2024: See Venus, Saturn and maybe some eerie fireballs tonight!

Don't miss these celestial treats this Halloween!

Space · Oct 31, 2022

Sky gazers will be able to see Saturn in Irish skies this week amid 'incredibly rare' event

The extremely rare event will see the planet making a rare close approach to the Moon

Irish Mirror · Oct 31, 2022

China launches 3rd and final space station component

China has launched the third and final module to complete its permanent space station, realizing a more than decade-long endeavor to maintain a constantly crewed presence in orbit

The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2022

Discovery of a sea on Mars raises chances life could be discovered on the red planet

Data shows 'clear evidence' of a 3.5 billion year old shoreline several thousand feet thick on Mars after traces of ancient ocean were found on the north side of the planet

Daily Mirror · Oct 30, 2022

Three subtle signs could give aliens away to astronomers

Scientists think that nuanced hints called technosignatures could point them to life on other planets, including radio waves and pollution.

Inverse · Oct 30, 2022

25 years on, NASA's flying telescope SOFIA is no more — what happens next?

Join Inverse for the ride of a lifetime on NASA’s now-retired SOFIA airborne observatory.

Inverse · Oct 30, 2022

The Perseverance rover is collecting rock samples from Mars to bring back to Earth

Hidden in the minerals and textures that make up rocks are clues about how and when they formed and were later altered. These changes can occur due to the presence of water-rich fluids and may also be influenced by biological processes.

The Conversation · Oct 30, 2022

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures Sun 'smiling' as impacts of meteorite strike recorded on Mars

The space agency tweets an image of the Sun in ultraviolet light with dark patches making up the features of a "smile".

ABC News · Oct 30, 2022

Astronomers find a doomed Earth-sized world around a violent star

What if you placed an Earth-sized planet in a close orbit around an M dwarf star? It’s more than an academic question since M dwarfs are the most numerous stars we know.

Inverse · Oct 29, 2022

Watch: Timelapse reveals how the universe has changed in just 12 years

The Universe is over 13 billion years old, so a 12-year slice of that time might seem uneventful. But a timelapse movie from NASA shows how much can change in just over a decade.

Inverse · Oct 29, 2022