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It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now)

The time has come — or will come, in 2035 — to abandon the leap second. So voted the member…

Fireball Flashes Above Ontario and Parts of the U.S.

A fireball that soared over Ontario, Canada, early on Saturday was the sixth object to be detected in space before…

The Mysterious Comets That Hide in the Asteroid Belt

What do you expect to find in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter? Unsurprisingly, asteroids — millions of bits…

The Surprising Afterlife of Unwanted Atom Bombs

What happens when old atomic bombs are retired? Last month, the Biden administration announced its intention to withdraw the nation’s…

Leonid Meteor Shower: How and When to Watch It Peak

Thursday night into Friday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch…

Hemp-Fed Cows Get Buzzed, Study Finds, but Will Humans Who Drink Their Milk?

Do cows that consume cannabis act goofy, get the munchies and spend more time lolling about with their stoned buddies?…

New Europa Pictures Beamed Home by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft

Europa, the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter, is still everything it’s cracked up to be. Juno, a NASA spacecraft that has…

NASA May Let Billionaire Astronaut and SpaceX Lift Hubble Telescope

If you’ve got a telescope in danger of falling out of orbit, who are you going to call? The United…

What NASA’s Crash Into an Asteroid Looks Like

NASA’s DART spacecraft was not able to take pictures of the very moment it slammed into an asteroid on Monday…

NASA Smashes Into an Asteroid, Completing a Mission to Save a Future Day

LAUREL, Md. — It’s the plot point for more than one Hollywood blockbuster: A rogue asteroid is hurtling toward Earth,…

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