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Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.

July 28, 2026 at 05:30AM
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NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 4, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will stream this event live through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online: https://ift.tt/v3QR5gW United States-based media interested […]

July 27, 2026 at 05:30AM
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Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. On Wednesday, Aug. 12, as the next total solar eclipse sweeps over Greenland, Iceland, […]

July 27, 2026 at 05:30AM
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While losing weight can help slow cognitive deterioration in older age, the research findings suggested that the timing of consumption offers distinct advantages.

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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 faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far outside of a galaxy’s core. “We were looking for these star-shredding events as a way […]

July 27, 2026 at 05:30AM
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NASA’s Hubble finds that star formation in the Andromeda galaxy has undergone a 500-million-year decline.

July 27, 2026 at 05:30AM
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Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m., Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, after departing the space station at 2:03 a.m., aboard the […]

July 26, 2026 at 05:30AM
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