Get ready for the spectacular Geminid Meteor Shower
As the year draws to a close, astronomers and meteor enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the appearance of the Geminid meteor shower.
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As the year draws to a close, astronomers and meteor enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the appearance of the Geminid meteor shower.
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At the end of the year, astronomers predict the appearance of a new meteor shower on December 12.
British actress Tessa Coates became an accidental participant in an amazing photographic experiment.
NASA has announced the launch of the annual Antarctic Long Duration Balloon Launch (LDB) campaign, which will include a series of scientific balloon flights from the LDB camp near McMurdo Station i
A huge number of "witch bottles" began to be found on beaches in the southern part of the United States. Their purpose is to "bury evil spirits."
NOAA confirms that on December 1, a "cannibal coronal mass ejection" (VCM) will hit our planet. Cannibal VCMs are formed when a fast VCM absorbs slower VCMs going ahead.
On Wednesday, November 22, photos and videos of yellow-gray snow made by surprised Permians appeared on social networks.
A strange change in the color of the water occurred in the Kilia Pond National Wildlife Refuge on Maui, Hawaii.
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. Egorov said in an interview with RIA Novosti that the sea can really burn, and this happens quite often.
The journal Cell reports that molecular biologists from China have successfully grown a chimeric variety of primate for the first time, using two sets of pluripotent stem cells for this purpose.
Residents of Alaska and visitors to the state will have a unique opportunity to observe an artificial glow in the sky created as part of the high-frequency active auroral Research (HAARP) program.