A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will strike the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, creating a debris plume that may be visible from Earth.
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The AI boom needs colossal amounts of electricity. That has turned fusion, forever mocked as “30 years away,” into one of the hottest bets in tech. The best-funded player just raised another $1 billion. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, based in Massachuset…
NOAA forecasts G1 and G2 geomagnetic storms on Friday, July 31, through Sunday, Aug. 2, with aurora possible on the northern horizon in U.S. states close to Canada.
Why do you jerk awake right before sleep? Sleep scientists explain the leading theories behind this fall, including one linking it to our tree-dwelling primate ancestors.

The refurbished railway station in London I entered last week had none of the usual signs of being a tattoo studio. The walls were devoid of any art, and there were no reclining chairs or massage tables in the room. The only tattoo gun on the premises sat in a display case instead of buzzing […]
Heat waves are simultaneously hitting Europe, North America, and Asia, driven in part by the hot waters in the tropical Pacific—and climate change.
In the wake of July’s buck moon on July 29 comes an “eclipse season,” with a total solar eclipse followed by a deep partial eclipse of the sturgeon moon on Aug. 27-28.
As NASA joins up with Europe to plan a lunar astronaut base, one EU designer envisions robotically building a fantastical Moon Temple open to all the world’s spacefarers.
Several cruise lines are sailing into the path of the August 12, 2026, total solar eclipse—with NASA veterans and other astronauts on board.