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Science • Aug 11

Watch the total solar eclipse online Aug. 12 with these free livestreams

Here's how to watch the phases of the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse unfold live online from the comfort of your home.

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Science • Aug 11

Isle of Man 'very well placed' for solar eclipse spectacular

People on the Isle of Man are set to enjoy one of the best vantage points in the British Isles to witness Wednesday's solar eclipse, with the moon expected...

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Science • Aug 11

Where to enjoy partial eclipse in South West and Channel Islands

Venues gear up to help people enjoy the partial eclipse safely from South West vantage spots.

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Science • Aug 11

New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have captured images of the sun's surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade.

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Science • Aug 11

Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 2 days to totality

Follow our live blog as we count down to the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026 with news, expert updates and live reporting from Greenland and Spain.

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Science • Aug 11

Perseid meteor shower reaches peak: When and where to catch a glimpse

The best annual meteor shower has once again returned to our skies, and the Perseids dazzling display is set to peak on Wednesday night.

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Science • Aug 11

Rush to find solar eclipse glasses as UK high street stocks run short

Some online shoppers may have left it too late for deliveries – but you can still view partial eclipse indirectly without specs.

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Science • Aug 10

In 2017, a young woman glanced at a solar eclipse for only a handful of seconds, and days later doctors found the exact shape of the eclipse burned into the back of her eye. What she began drawing to describe her ruined vision matched that shape almost per

The eclipse of 21 August 2017 was, in the specific sense that matters to astronomers, an ordinary eclipse. It was total across a narrow band of the...

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Science • Aug 10

Three Meteor Showers Are Lighting Up Vancouver’s Skies With Fireballs This Month

Three meteor showers will light up Metro Vancouver skies this August, creating dazzling shows of fire through the night.

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Science • Aug 10

SpaceX scrubs planned Monday launch of its Falcon 9 rocket; targets Tuesday morning

Update Aug. 10, 3:46 p.m. EDT (1946 UTC): Added updated forecast from the 45th Weather Squadron. SpaceX was set to kick off the work week with a Falcon 9...

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Science • Aug 10

Arctic fossil abandoned in 1948 proves to be record-size Triassic hunter

Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island. Unable to take it with them,...

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Science • Aug 10

Viking lander's 1976 Mars soil test may have found life after all

In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander found strong "life affirmation" results in a Martian soil sample. Robert Jastrow, then director of NASA's Goddard Institute...

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Science • Aug 10

The stripes on Perseverance's parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing

NASA engineers hid a secret message in the Perseverance rover's parachute stripes—one that amateur codebreakers cracked before the dust had settled on Mars.

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Science • Aug 10

Discovery of 'slow' electrons in 2D material could lead to new memory device

Over the last decade, researchers have developed two-dimensional materials with fascinating quantum effects that could be harnessed for next-generation...

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Science • Aug 10

DESI releases biggest 2D map of the universe

Hold on to your telescopes: The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map...

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Science • Aug 10

The best meteor shower of the year peaks this week, how to view

There is a high amount of activity in the sky with this meteor shower and you can get bright fireballs.

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Science • Aug 10

Trapped gases in ancient rocks challenge global explanation for 2-billion-year-old carbon anomaly

Roughly 2.5–2 billion years ago, Earth's surface experienced the biggest chemical change in its history when oxygen became abundant in the atmosphere,...

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Science • Aug 10

Australian researchers fitted five magpies with GPS trackers to map their movements, but the birds began removing one another’s harnesses within minutes, turning a failed trial into an unexpected observation of cooperation

Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with tiny GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and social relationships.

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Science • Aug 10

The Perseids are back: Here’s where and when to view the best meteor shower of the year

The most popular meteor shower of the year is making a comeback to the summer night sky this week.

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Science • Aug 10

Florida's rocket launch schedule this week has 2 SpaceX launches

Here's Florida's rocket launch schedule for the week of August 10, where rocket launches are visible and how to watch NASA content with Amazon Prime.

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