Dry storms that emerged over the Cascade Range on the night of July 15, 2026, struck Oregon and Washington with thousands of lightning strikes as they moved east across the states. By the next day, NASA satellites had begun detecting large numbers of wildfires across central and eastern Oregon. Although initially small, these fires intensified
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NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a distant galaxy. For starters, these phenomena are rare and none have ever been seen so far outside the core of a galaxy before. “We were looking for these star destruction events as a
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NASA astronaut Chris Williams will summarize his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a press conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 4 from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will broadcast this event live across a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online: NASA Live US-based media
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Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse (darkening the daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona), new opportunities present themselves to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. On Wednesday, August 12, when the next total solar eclipse passes over Greenland, Iceland and
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