Northern lights chances rise for Christmas as space weather remains unsettled
Fast solar wind and a possible glancing blow from a coronal mass ejection could spark auroras over Christmas....
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Fast solar wind and a possible glancing blow from a coronal mass ejection could spark auroras over Christmas....
"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to even...
📋 Key Facts ✓ 2025 is likely to be the UK's hottest year on record. ✓ The Met Office has made this prediction. ✓ ...
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All the NASA engineers and scientists need is a star on top of the telescope in the cleanroom....
Here are eight of the most spectacular astronomical discoveries of 2025....
Nature, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03756-4 The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months....
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispers—and this year, it heard the most energeti...
New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown....
2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months....
Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos....
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Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas....
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The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving....
The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals....
While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty....
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Weather set to turn colder during Christmas week in the UK. ✓ White Christmas unlikely for most areas. ✓ ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ An analysis examined the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier. ✓ The study covers the past 20 years of observation...