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Evacuation orders affect hundreds in California, Oregon

SISTERS, Ore. (AP) — Evacuation orders affecting hundreds of people were issued in California and Oregon as wildfires neared small towns, including one that’s a prime location for viewing the eclipse....

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During the eclipse, is the moon moving backward?

Reading this on your phone? Stay up to date with our free mobile app. Get it from the Apple app store or the Google Play store. By Sarah Kaplan People say that the eclipse will start on the West Coast...

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‘A primal experience’: Americans dazzled by solar eclipse

By MARCIA DUNN The stars came out in the middle of the day, zoo animals ran in agitated circles, crickets chirped, birds fell silent and a chilly darkness settled upon the land Monday as the U.S....

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It rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus

By Srah Kaplan | Washington Post Consider this your daily reminder that the solar system is even more awesomely bonkers than you realized: On Uranus and Neptune, scientists forecast rain storms of...

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Requiem for the Cassini space probe

Before dawn on Friday, scientists will gather at Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to witness the death of an old friend: Cassini, a spacecraft that has awed and inspired generations as it spun...

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Cassini’s fiery death witnessed by emotional NASA team

By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn early Friday in a final, fateful blaze of cosmic glory, following a remarkable journey of...

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See Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis, the document that crashed Cambridge website

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University put Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis online, triggering such interest that it crashed the university’s website. Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, “Properties of...

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How we’ll serenade aliens with music

A sampling of 18 unique types of techno-pop music has been hurled into space by a San Francisco-based research group, in search of an extraterrestrial audience. If aliens are expecting Barry Manilow,...

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Here’s your chance to help NASA build a home on Mars

Paradise on the Red Planet! Masterful design and modern technology are uniquely embodied in this one-of-a-kind, award-winning dream house, graced by spectacular panoramic views of Mother Earth. That...

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Watch: Blazing fireball turns night into day

By JAN M. OLSEN COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A blazing fireball lit up the dark skies of Arctic Finland for five seconds, giving off what scientists said was “the glow of 100 full moons” and igniting...

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Some super views of our Supermoon

Related Articles ‘Supermoon’ will ring in 2018 Supermoon on Sunday kicks off trilogy of celestial shows King tide, Geminid flop: Supermoon exerts its power In the second of a three-act play by Mother...

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Lunar trifecta: Blue moon, supermoon, total lunar eclipse rolled into one

Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. By MARCIA DUNN | The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon is...

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Mars rover’s stunning self-portrait released by NASA

Click here if you are having a problem viewing the photos or video on a mobile device By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has transformed selfies taken by its Mars rover Curiosity into a...

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SpaceX’s hot new monster rocket ready for first test flight

Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our new Morning Report weekday newsletter. By MARCIA DUNN | The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL  — SpaceX’s hot new...

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy has successful test flight

Related Articles What time is Elon Musk’s rocket launch? What will happen to that Tesla Roadster inside the SpaceX launch? By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s big new rocket blasted off...

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Self-taught astronomer makes monumental discovery

Sarah Kaplan | Washington Post The moment he saw the brilliant light captured by his camera, “it all clicked” for Victor Buso: All the times his parents woke him before sunrise to gaze at the stars,...

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Astronomers’ big sighting: cosmic dawn, and maybe dark matter

By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed the dawn of the universe 13.6 billion years ago when the earliest stars were just beginning to glow after the Big...

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Geometric clusters of cyclones churn over Jupiter’s poles

This handout picture shows Jupiter’s South Pole in a mosaic of images acquired by the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper at wavelengths. (NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAFPS)  By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla....

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Is E.T. dead? Scientists listen for a pulse

MOUNTAIN VIEW – If we finally hear from aliens, it may be a death rattle. Civilizations are ephemeral things — and messages take so long to travel across our vast galaxy that E.T. probably perished...

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The truth about astronaut Scott Kelly’s viral ‘space genes’

By Sarah Kaplan | Washington Post In March 2016, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned from an unprecedented 340-day mission on the International Space Station. A year later, his doctors released...

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