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A Glaciologist Reveals What We Still Don’t Understand About Polar Ice

Climate change is leading to more rapid melting of polar ice, and the race is on to determine when, where, and how polar ice sheets will collapse.

Inverse

Richard Franklin obituary

Actor who played the dashing Capt Mike Yates in 1970s episodes of the long-running TV series Doctor Who

The Guardian - UK

Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream?

Movement is growing to give legal rights and political representation to nonhuman animals, species and places

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Full moons of 2024: Names, dates and everything you need to know

Find out exactly when to see the full moons of 2024, including dates for supermoons and a two lunar eclipses.

LiveScience

How to watch Planet Earth III: Wonders of Nature for free online from anywhere

Sir David Attenborough's landmark series isn't done just yet. How to watch the special Planet Earth III: Wonders of Nature online for free

TechRadar

The 10 best stargazing events of 2024

The 2024 stargazing guide includes a rare total solar eclipse, two bright comet flybys and three supermoons. Here are all the dates you need to know.

LiveScience

Quadrantid meteor shower 2024: The year's 1st meteor shower blazes over North America on Jan. 3

Up to 120 shooting stars per hour could be visible during a brief peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower — the year's first meteor shower, coming to North America Jan. 3 and 4.

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10 things to see in the night sky in 2024 (and how to see them)

From meteor showers to a landmark solar eclipse, the next 12 months will bring some stunning sights for skywatchers

Space-based solar power could revolutionize global energy consumption

Discover the futuristic concept of space-based solar power, beaming energy from space to Earth. Learn about the feasibility and benefits of this innovative...

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Want to buy a home telescope? Tips from a professional astronomer to help you choose

While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so much more. Seeing Saturn’s rings or the Moon’s craters with your own eyes can be an “oh wow” moment.

The Conversation

A Planetary Scientist Reveals the 6 Biggest Space Missions in 2024

Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will target the Moon.

Inverse

The ultimate summer reading list: 15 sci-fi and fantasy novels to escape into

From Douglas Adams and Liu Cixin to Terry Pratchett and Claire G Coleman, your beach reads are sorted courtesy of Guardian Australia’s staff and critics

The Guardian - AU

Checking your 2024 horoscope? Astronomy explains why your sign might have changed

Our view of the constellations has changed since they were first mapped thousands of years ago. That new perspective could also mess with your astrological horoscope in the new year.

WEKU

Red alert in Antarctica: the year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a ‘punch in the guts’

Study after study showed the breakdown of climate systems taking place much earlier than foreseen, with potentially catastrophic results

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Why we're not over the moon ... yet

Here's the space we'll watch in 2024.

Space

SpaceX test fires giant Starship booster — and spaceship — for 3rd test flight (video)

SpaceX closed out 2023 with a fiery double test of its next Starship megarocket booster and spacecraft on Friday (Sept. 29).

Space

NASA's Curiosity rover films from dawn to dusk on Mars during downtime (video)

NASA 'sCuriosity Rover filmed footage from dawn to dusk, capturing half a day on Mars as it sat waiting for contact with ground control Nov. 8.

TechRadar

DCU Chapter One: every upcoming DC comic book movie and TV show, plus known release dates

DCU Chapter One will deliver three new projects in 2026 – here's what they are, when you'll see them, and what else is in the pipeline.

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The Nilgiris Earth Festival turns the spotlight on the biosphere

The Nilgiris Earth Festival, that concluded recently, celebrated local food, culture, and ecology, and kick-started a discussion on conservation of the Nilgiris Biosphere

The Guardian - UK

What’s ahead in 2024: calendar of the year

Dozens of elections, Ukraine and Israel-Palestine, moon missions, the climate crisis and AI

Space

NASA can't wait for its OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft to meet 'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis in 2029

'God of Chaos' asteroid Apophis will make a flyby like no other in recorded history in 2029 as it becomes visible with the naked eye, and NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will be on hand to supervise.

Space

NASA's Juno spacecraft will get its closest look yet at Jupiter's moon Io on Dec. 30

NASA's Juno spacecraft will come closer to Jupiter's moon Io on Dec. 30 than any spacecraft has in 20 years, getting a good look at the solar system's most volcanic body.

Space

Chinese rocket booster falls from space, crashes near house, after satellite launch: report

Rocket debris from a recent China satellite launch fell to ground near inhabited areas, where bystanders apparently caught the fiery touchdown on video.

Space

SpaceX wows with a double header of final 2023 rocket launches (photos, video)

SpaceX ended 2023 with not 1 but 2 rocket launches. Within hours on Dec. 28, it sent a Falcon Heavy rocket loaded with the X-37B space plane, and a Falcon 9 carrying Starlink satellites.

France 24

‘God of Chaos’: NASA sends spacecraft to study asteroid approaching earth

A NASA spacecraft, recently returned from a mission to asteroid Bennu, has been relaunched to study another asteroid as it approaches Earth’s orbit: Apophis, named after the Egyptian god of Chaos. The space rock is expected to pass within 32,000 kilometres of the Earth's surface on April 13, 2029.

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