Powerful Solar Storm to Hit Earth by Wednesday
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A huge sunspot kicked up a powerful flare Monday that could spark colorful sky lights above Earth Tuesday night or early Wednesday.
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn. The 3 billion-mile, eight-year journey to probe the earliest stages of the solar system will begin with liftoff, planned for just after sunrise Thursday. Rain is forecast, however, and could force a delay.
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By Joe Bauman Deseret Morning News  Utahns who missed Sunday's rare planetary grouping -- and that's most of the state because of cloud cover -- will get another chance at a space spectacular early Thursday morning.
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For about eight hours, an &quot;extreme geomagnetic storm&quot; raged in the upper atmosphere, as high-energy particles emitted by the sun three days ago swept over Earth.
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If humans live on the moon some day, they might turn on the weather forecast just as they do on Earth. But in space, they won't fear rain storms, but sun storms.
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Earth is about to gets its closest brush this century with a massive asteroid, a hurtling space rock astronomers say is big enough to cause global devastation if it were to collide with the planet.
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The Genesis spaceprobe with its cargo of solar wind particles is just a week away from reaching Earth.
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Showers and thunderstorms spread across much of the country Wednesday.
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A typhoon moving towards Japan was forecast on Wednesday to hit a region near Tokyo later in the week and bring heavy rains and strong winds to the capital.
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It's the year 2020, and space has never been so busy. Picture this:In Earth orbit, a robotic maintenance ship skitters from one weather satellite to another, upgrading powerful optics that help meteorologists track dangerous storms.
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NASA will attempt to launch the Atlantis shuttle next Wednesday as the orbiter successfully weathered Tropical Storm Ernesto this week, the US space agency said.
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The Genesis desert crash has left scientists wondering about the delicate condition of its solar wind collection. The first release of samples to the community has begun, while new tests for oxygen-isotopes may help uncover which particles might have lunar, solar or terrestrial origins.
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A proposed solar telescope could help scientists gain a clearer picture of the link between sunspots and solar storms, which can spur power outages on Earth.
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The eclipse will first be visible, weather permitting, from Japan, Mongolia, China and Siberia on Thursday, October 14. Skywatchers in western Alaska should be able to see the final moments of the eclipse
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Five satellites were launched into space from Florida on Saturday aboard an unmanned Delta rocket to investigate electromagnetic storms, the dark side of the phenomenon that causes Earth's dazzling aurorae.
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One of the most powerful rockets since The Boeing Co.&#39;s Saturn 5 hurled astronauts to the moon more than three decades ago is set to blast away from Cape Canaveral today, weather permitting.
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A powerful storm battered Southern California on Tuesday with wind up to 60 mph and a threat of up to a foot of rain, causing power outages and highway-blocking mudslides.