A rare blue supermoon rising August 30 will be the biggest full moon of 2023 — and won't happen again until 2037

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A supermoon rises behind a downtown office building in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 7, 2020.

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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft may have discovered what powers solar winds

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We know the sun belches out solar winds, but the origin of these streams of charged particles remain a mystery and has been the subject of numerous studies over the past decades.

Around 10,000 penguin chicks died when the Antarctic ice they lived on melted — they were still too young to survive in the icy water

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Emperor Penguin chicks at colony Snow Hill Island, Antarctica.

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Video shows the moment a California bear opens the door to a man's home: 'I nearly fell off the couch'

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A video still shows a bear on a front porch, captured by an automated digital recording device live feed.
A still from a recording of a digital doorbell shows a beer at the front door of a house in Half Moon Bay, California. The bear was caught skillfully opening the front door before leaving without a trace.

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The Atlantic Ocean is getting wider every year. Researchers have finally figured out why.

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A map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.

NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using data from Sandwell, D. et al. (2014).

Japan released treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean. Experts say it's safe, but one would avoid the fish.

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A Tokyo Electric Power Co. employee wearing a protective suit and mask near storage water tanks.

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Can you shower during a thunderstorm? It's not a great idea; not even to do laundry — here's why

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A picture of a lake-side town at night showered by several lightning bolts at once in Maracaibo.
Lake Maracaibo acts like a beacon for lightning.

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NASA reveals pollution maps gathered by the TEMPO space instrument

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NASA has published the first maps from its new space-based pollution instrument, TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution). Although you won’t be shocked to learn it reveals higher pollution rates in metropolitan areas, the tool can help scientists better study North American air quality on an hourly basis.

Elon Musk's tweet is cited in a new DOJ lawsuit accusing SpaceX of routine discrimination against refugees

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CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk.

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Elon Musk is trying to launch his Starship mega-rocket again after the first attempt ended in an explosion. It's been 10 years in the making.

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A static fire test of Starship on 9 February 2023 (left). On the right, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is pictured on 1 December 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

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