A 'severe' geomagnetic storm is forecast for Earth for the first time in years — here's what to know about these storms

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Satellite image of the sun's corona
NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured this image of activity in the sun's corona on May 10.

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The first severe solar storm in 20 years could spark aurora across the US

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Aurora are usually contained to the uppermost art of the Northern Hemisphere. But US states as far south as Michigan may be able to see them this Friday.

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A hiker discovered a wealthy traveler's remains on a skiing glacier in Switzerland. They turned out to be 400 years old.

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Pierre-Yves Nicod holds the mystery traveler's 400-year-old shoe.

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Photos show what cave divers discovered when they swam inside an iceberg the size of Jamaica. Today, it's gone.

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Paul Heinerth rises out of a cave inside a fragment of iceberg B15, which calved from Antarctica in the spring of 2000.

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' prison time gets shortened — again

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, left, reported to a women's prison in Bryan, Texas, on May 30, 2023, to begin serving her sentence.

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Amateur archaeologists found a mysterious 12-sided object from the Roman Empire that experts can't explain

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The Norton Disney History and Archaeology Group found an ancient Roman dodecahedron in the Midlands of England.

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Elon Musk says AI has no 'use' at SpaceX — at least for now

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the 27th annual Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on May 6, 2024.

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Elon Musk calls out Boeing's historic first crewed spaceflight, saying SpaceX beat them to the punch years ago

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Elon Musk is CEO of Boeing competitor SpaceX.

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An 'artificial sun' achieved a record-breaking fusion experiment, bringing us closer to clean, limitless energy

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A fisheye view of the WEST tokamak, a rounded metal device
WEST's interior, which just broke a fusion record for a tungsten tokamak.

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China's hype video for its lunar base showed what looked like a NASA Space Shuttle lifting off, which it then realized and tried to fix

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What appears to be a NASA Space Shuttle seen in CNSA's video of the lunar base.
What appears to be a NASA Space Shuttle seen in CNSA's video of the lunar base.

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