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You need to get to the path of totality for the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse

Totality or nothing. Plan ahead for 2024's solar eclipse | Space Quiz! The Orionid meteor shower consists of debris left behind by which comet? | JWST spots jet stream on Jupiter stronger than Category 5

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October 20, 2023

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Totality or nothing. Plan ahead for 2024's solar eclipse

(Michael Zeiler/GreatAmericanEclipse.com)

There's a reason why the path of totality is called what it is. Mistakes will be made by many would-be eclipse-chasers on April 8, 2024.

Full Story: Space (10/19)

Space Quiz! The Orionid meteor shower consists of debris left behind by which comet?

Learn the answer here!

JWST spots jet stream on Jupiter stronger than Category 5

(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Hueso (UPV), Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouchet (Observatory of Paris), Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Joseph DePasquale (STScI))

Images the observatory took of the gas giant last year have managed to show us brand new things about its moons, atmosphere and rings. (Yes, Jupiter has rings too!)

Full Story: Space (10/19)

Skywatching

The Orionid meteor shower peaks this weekend

(Michael Orso/Getty Images)

During these next several days, if you happen to be outside prior to the break of dawn and are looking up and glimpse a "shooting star," there's a good chance that what you saw was part of the Orionid meteor shower.

Full Story: Space (10/20)

Spaceflight

NASA tests new kind of Artemis moon-rocket engine (video)

(NASA / Danny Nowlin)

The tests will aid the certification of SLS missions starting with Artemis 5, which will fly no earlier than 2029 but may push into the 2030s depending on the progress of earlier missions.

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Science & Astronomy

Sun's magnetic fields offer insight into major solar mystery

(NASA/Queen's University Belfast)

Solar scientists could be one step closer to solving a lingering mystery about the sun: why its outer atmosphere, called the corona, is so much hotter than the layers below it.

Full Story: Space (10/19)

Technology

Astronauts may wear electric field suits to repel lunar dust

(NASA)

The material will be built to use electrostatic forces that can keep corrosive moon dust away, thereby preventing the sharp particles from damaging spacesuits.

Full Story: Space (10/20)

Search for Life

Search for alien intelligence gets a new home at Oxford

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The University of Oxford in the United Kingdom has been selected as the new international headquarters for the world's largest SETI project, the Breakthrough Listen initiative.

Full Story: Space (10/19)

Star Trek

'Lower Decks' creator on finding humor in Starfleet

(Paramount+)

Space.com sat down with "Lower Decks" creator Mike McMahan in a press roundtable at New York Comic Con 2023. There, we learned how he finds new territory to explore in a 50-year old series, how he incorporates new characters into a well-established crew and how he doesn't feel married to character backstory - particularly when being flexible results in a more entertaining world.

Full Story: Space (10/19)