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How many weeks are there in a year?

We take our timekeeping rules for granted, but the history of these rules is long and complex.

LiveScience

Chef Duff Goldman spins up moon-shaped cake for NASA 'Taste of Space'

Duff Goldman, the host of the Food Network show "Ace of Cakes," has for a third year brought a space-themed cake to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Space

Readers reply: Which works of fiction have an optimistic view of the future?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - UK

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Cooling The Earth By Blocking Sunlight Is Relatively Simple — But Should We?

The risks of solar geoengineering will be magnified if critics are ignored and researchers are allowed to self-regulate.

Inverse

15 Years Ago, a Wildly Ambitious Sci-Fi Remake Never Lived Up To Its Promise

In 2009, 'V' delivered a stunning debut. But it ultimately fell apart at the seams.

Inverse

Phoenix's extreme heat is a warning

Phoenix may be getting hotter, but nowhere will escape the extreme heat of climate change

Salon

Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises

The Guardian - UK

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A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock may have nourished early microbial life

On a young Earth, giant meteors might have been a harbinger of life, not death.

LiveScience

Researchers Find Oxygen Made Without Photosynthesis — With Mind-Blowing Consequences

The scientists also suggested that the amount of oxygen created may fluctuate depending on the number and mixture of nodules on the ocean floor.

Inverse

SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including Boeing Starliner crew, fly Dragon spacecraft to new ISS parking spot (video)

Four astronauts moved their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to a new space station docking port on Sunday (Nov. 3) to make way for an incoming cargo ship.

Space

NASA astronaut captures city lights streaking below ISS in stunning new photos

Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a colorful ball that resembles Jupiter.

Space

'Alien signal' sent from Mars decoded by father-daughter team

A signal beamed at Earth from Mars in 2023 has finally been decoded by a father and daughter team in the United States.

Space

Met Office reveals when and where Northern Lights 'may be visible' this weekend

The Northern Lights "may be visible" in the UK again this week, according to the Met Office – see exactly when and the best spots to see…

The National (Scotland)

Satellites watch devastating floods in Spain from space (photos)

Valencia was particularly hard-hit.

Space

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Apophis: a new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that’s set to brush by Earth

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses), will rendezvous with the asteroid in February 2029.

Space

X-class Halloween solar flare erupts from sun, causes radio blackouts (video)

The sun erupted with an X-class solar flare on Halloween, and solar activity is expected to remain high through Nov. 3.

The Independent UK

Science has found its first candidate for a dark-matter detector. It’s a really old rock

Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance makes up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe

Space

Can we solve the satellite air pollution problem? Here are 4 possible fixes

New technologies including recoverable satellites and in-orbit space debris recycling could help solve the satellite air pollution problem and prevent a new ecological crisis in the future.

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NASA astronaut Suni Williams sends Happy Diwali wishes from ISS (video)

As millions of people around the world celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams radioed home her share of festive cheer.

Space

'Interstellar' fireballs likely came from within our solar system, study suggests

The imprecision in the measurements of claimed interstellar fireballs means it is highly likely they originate in the solar system instead, a new study reports.

Space

Perseverance rover watches 'googly eye' solar eclipse from Mars (video)

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in front of the sun.

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig; What the Earth Seemed to Say by Marie Howe; Collected Poems by Mimi Khalvati; Ceremony for the Nameless by Theresa Lola; Girl by Ruth Padel

Space

November's new moon makes a close pass to Venus

The new moon of November 2024 occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.

Dynamite News

India's first analog space mission kicks off in Leh by ISRO

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday announced the launch of India's first analog space mission, which commenced in Leh, Ladakh. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Guardian - UK

Inventory counts air pollution cost of space launches and re-entries

Researchers report rise in material falling back to Earth and growing emissions from satellite megaconstellations

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