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Each week Science Friday, hosted by Ira Flatow, focuses on science topics that are in the news and brings an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand.

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This map shows the visibility of the total lunar eclipse in the contiguous U.S. at 7:11 a.m. Eastern time this Wednesday. The total lunar eclipse will be visible everywhere in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, as well as in Texas, Oklahoma, western Kansas, Hawaii and Alaska. (NASA)
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How to watch the ‘Super Flower Blood Moon’ lunar eclipse this week

Early risers in the U.S. can catch a spectacular view of the moon Wednesday morning before sunrise, but what you'll be able to see will depend largely on where you live.

5 years ago

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What goes up must come down — including a giant Chinese rocket plunging toward Earth

U.S. Space Command says the exact entry point into Earth's atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until hours before its reentry, which is expected sometime around Saturday.

5 years ago

This rock, called
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Science

Mapping Máaz: NASA uses Navajo language to name features on Mars

NASA got permission from the Navajo Nation to use their language to name some points of interest on Mars.

6 years ago

This photo made available by NASA was taken during the first drive of the Perseverance rover on Mars on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Perseverance landed on Feb. 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
Radio Times

The Mars mission and the future of commercial space travel

NASA's rover Perseverance is on Mars searching for evidence of ancient life. What would it mean if we found it? And, where is the growing commercial space industry headed?

Air Date: March 12, 2021 10:00 am

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This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Mars 2020 spacecraft carrying the Perseverance rover as it approaches Mars. Perseverance's $3 billion mission is the first leg in a U.S.-European effort to bring Mars samples to Earth in the next decade. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
Science

NASA rover lands on Mars to look for signs of ancient life

A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in a quest to search for life on Mars.

6 years ago

Saturn (center, left) and Jupiter (center, right) share a night sky earlier this year near Vantage, Wash. Already this past summer, the two planets were growing closer in the night sky. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
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Jupiter and Saturn will be together again for the holidays

Jupiter and Saturn — which are actually separated by more than 400 million miles — are expected to appear closer to each other in the night sky than they have for centuries.

6 years ago

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Down the Shore
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Prolific, colorful Perseid meteor shower to dazzle stargazers during peak

The best viewing is from a dark location, like a secluded beach, between a few hours before midnight and dawn, according to earthsky.org.

6 years ago

SpaceX Astronauts Return
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SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years

It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit.

6 years ago

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Science

‘On our way to Mars’: NASA rover will look for signs of life

NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into a clear morning sky in the world’s third and final Mars launch of the summer.

6 years ago

Comet Neowise passes St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, UK in the early hours of Tuesday morning. (Owen Humphreys - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images)
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Science

Good news: This comet won’t cause a mass extinction in 2020. Also, it’s really pretty

The first thing to know about a new comet that has appeared in the evening sky is that it's one big ice ball: about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) across.

6 years ago

A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Crew Dragon capsule, sits on Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Science

SpaceX rocket ship blasts off into orbit with 2 Americans

A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era of commercial space travel.

6 years ago

Space X, Falcon 9, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken
Science

2 U.S. astronauts board SpaceX rocket for historic launch

The launch Wednesday afternoon will be the first of Americans from the U.S. in nearly a decade.

6 years ago

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying more than 4,300 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the International Space Station launches from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Science

SpaceX successfully lands 50th rocket in 5 years

SpaceX launched another cargo mission to the International Space Station Friday, successfully landing the flight's rocket booster for the 50th time in the last five years, the

7 years ago

a butterfly on a flower
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Spring Ahead

It's time to set your clocks ahead!

Air Date: March 7, 2020

FILE-In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 photo, Willie Mays, right, looks on as President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film “Hidden Figures,” died Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Pioneering black mathematician Katherine Johnson has died

NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures" has died.

7 years ago

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