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laptop illustration with live streaming sign in the top right corner and a monochrome image of an asteroid white dot flying against a background of stars.

Watch 'potentially hazardous' asteroid fly near Earth this weekend in this free livestream

By Samantha Mathewson published

The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will livestream views of the asteroid's close approach online.

Asteroids
A volcano on the surface of Venus.

Scientists may have just found the driving force behind Venus' volcanos

By Samantha Mathewson published

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Venus
graphic illustration showing what flat-earther's believe our planet looks like, a flat disk.

How to debate a flat-Earther: Proven scientific arguments and strategies

By Paul Sutter last updated

Some people around the world believe our planet is flat. Here's the (surprising) truth about debating them.

Earth

Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere

By Kiona N. Smith published

Big storms can strip some parts of Jupiter's atmosphere of ammonia, while leaving buried reservoirs of the gas elsewhere.

Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission’s 54th close flyby of the giant planet on Sept. 7, 2023.

Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball'

By Victoria Corless published

A massive solar windstorm in 2017 compressed Jupiter's magnetosphere "like a giant squash ball," a new study reports.

Jupiter
A yellow orb is surrounded by tons of yellow dots representing space debris below 0.1 mm.

ESA's new documentary paints worrying picture of Earth's orbital junk problem

By Monisha Ravisetti published

The European Space Agency's new documentary short tackles the question of whether space debris has reached crisis level.

Earth
Solar Orbiter's view of the huge, 2 million kilometer-long helical streamer following a CME.

Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun's greatest mysteries (video)

By Keith Cooper published

Europe's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has chronicled the development of the magnetic escape of plasma driven out by a powerful magnetic reconnection event.

The Sun
an eruptive solar flare is fired off from the sun.

Sun unleashes powerful M5.6 solar flare and Earth is in the firing line — are auroras incoming?

By Daisy Dobrijevic published

After last week's explosive X-flare, sunspot AR4046 is at it again! Could this latest eruption bring stormy space weather to Earth?

The Sun
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away on July 6, 2015.

This sulfur-based space molecule could tell us about the emergence of life on Earth

By Samantha Mathewson published

Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a sulfur-based molecule found in space that may offer new clues about the formation of life on Earth.

Earth
a bright, multi-pronged bolt of lightning extends down from a cloudy sky over silhouettes of trees and houses

Cosmic rays may be the elusive spark for lightning here on Earth

By Tereza Pultarova published

Cosmic rays may play a role in triggering lightning, a new study suggests, offering an out-of-this-world answer to a long-standing mystery.

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