Space

Get ready stargazers! The Orionid meteor shower peak begins tonight, welcoming a spectacular natural light show that could see a flurry of shooting stars spawned by Halley’s Comet brighten the dark, moonless sky. The 2025 Orionid meteor shower peak begins overnight on Oct. 20-21, when 10-20 shooting stars may be visible streaking across the night sky from a point of origin known as a…

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Heads up aurora chasers! The northern lights may receive a boost tonight as Earth is forecast to be hit by the first of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched from the sun earlier this week. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch for Oct. 16 due to several incoming solar storms. The strongest impact is expected late on Thursday night…

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting experiment on board, got a little confused after touchdown. When the balloon landed Oct. 2 in farmland in Hale County, Texas after a flight high in Earth’s atmosphere, several local news reports…