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'Extreme' solar storms cook up sweet Mother's Day auroras for Moms everywhere
By Meredith Garofalo last updated
Want to save all the calories from Mother's Day brunch? You can still "sweeten" her holiday with an opportunity to see the northern lights again tonight!
On This Day in Space: May 12, 2000: Last spacewalk at Mir space station
By Hanneke Weitering last updated
On May 12, 2000, two Russian cosmonauts embarked on the 80th and final spacewalk at the Mir space station.
The stormy sun erupts with its biggest solar flare yet from a massive sunspot — and it's still crackling (video)
By Meredith Garofalo published
Just when we think we’ve seen the most powerful of flares from a colossal sunspot, the sun unleashed kicked off the strongest eruption of the weekend yet and is still crackling with solar storms.
Houston, we have an encore: ISS virtual reality experience 'The Infinite' returns
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
What do you do for an encore after you have virtually transported thousands of Houstonians to the International Space Station? If you are Felix & Paul, you invite them back, to fly to the moon.
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 110 — Voyager 1's Brush with Silence
By Space.com Staff published
On Episode 110 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist, about the recent rescue of Voyager 1 from beyond the solar system.
DARPA's autonomous 'Manta Ray' drone can glide through ocean depths undetected
By Sascha Pare published
Northrop Grumman Corporation has built its Manta Ray uncrewed underwater vehicle, which will operate long-duration missions and carry payloads into the ocean depths in partnership with DARPA.
'World's purest silicon' could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future.
Jaw-dropping northern lights from massive solar flares amaze skywatchers around the world. 'We have a very rare event on our hands.' (photos)
By Tariq Malik, Daisy Dobrijevic published
An aurora show like no other is playing out in the night sky this weekend, spawned by intense solar storms that are painting the sky spectacular hues of pinks, purples and greens.
NASA's Chandra spacecraft spots supermassive black hole erupting in the Milky Way's heart
By Robert Lea published
NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope has spotted the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy erupting, proving even quiet black holes like Sagittarius A* need to vent sometimes.
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