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Scrimping on flood protection may have saved taxpayers money. But the Hill Country floods on July 4 cost 137 people -- ...
The Southern Delta Aquariid and the Alpha Capricornid meteor showers peak at the same time — in the early morning of July 30.
Hubble captured this stellar explosion in NGC 3285B, 137 million light-years away, offering new insights into the expanding ...
The stuffed grouper, a close cousin to those famous shrimp, features fresh fish filled with the same heavenly crab mixture, ...
Brief electrical flashes called red sprites appeared near Fuego Volcano in Colima at 3:44 a.m., offering rare insight into ...
The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...
Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.
Sky watchers don’t have to wait much longer for an opportunity to catch not one, but two meteor showers that reach their peak ...
The emergency spillway area is a designated fossil collection zone where visitors can hunt for and keep fossils of brachiopods, trilobites, and other marine creatures that called this area home about ...
For nearly a century, pilots have reported seeing mysterious red flashes above thunderstorms, initially dismissed as myths. These elusive phenomena, known as red sprites, are now captured by ...
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While recent research shows the night sky is getting brighter every year across North America, the Big Bend area in Texas has fended off the light glow that washes out starry nights.