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On Friday evening, April 29, the Angara-1 launch vehicle was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.2" with a satellite of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Although not everyone on all continents will be able to witness this impressive spectacle directly in the sky, nevertheless everyone will be able to watch the broadcast of the eclipse online.
A huge layer of toxic foam fell from a polluted river into the Colombian city of Mosquera. The foam has broken into cloudy chunks and is drifting with the wind along the streets.
Scientists of the Ural Federal University (UrFU, Yekaterinburg) together with colleagues from Russia, Finland and Canada have discovered an unusual shape of the trace of comet 17P/Holmes, the press
Eyewitnesses received 19 reports of a fireball spotted over the lands of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Emilia-Romagna, Hesse, Piedmont, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Salzburg and Veneto on Wednesday,
A ghostly vision appeared on the shores of Derwentwater today to mark the launch of Sky's new supernatural crime thriller.
The starfall of eta-Aquarids (May Aquarids) will reach its maximum activity on the night of May 5. Scientists predict up to 40 meteors per hour.
A rare deep-sea fish stunned the locals of Dunedin. The fish was found on Aramoana Beach on Monday afternoon. It was estimated to be 3.6 m long.
On May 31, Russians will not see a powerful meteor shower from the constellation Volopas, which will reach 700 meteors per hour.
In early spring, in April 1997, military pensioner Alexei Yakovlevich Levin from Nizhny Novgorod discovered a scattering of black fragments on a small area of a previously cultivated field.
Over the past few decades, many cases of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have been known, but we all wonder when it really all started. When was the first UFO sighting in history?
Residents of the US state of North Carolina captured a rather rare atmospheric phenomenon known as "rainbow clouds", or a near horizon arc.
