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Full moon names 2025 (and how they came to be)

By Joe Rao last updated

Reference The full moon names for each month, why they're named so and what we can expect from these lunar events.

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What is the moon phase today? Lunar phases 2025

By Tariq Malik last updated

Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025.

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A map of the ocean seafloor

Satellites map Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail

By Skyler Ware published

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

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The Thompson fire burns around Lake Oroville in Oroville, California on July 2, 2024.

'Ambitious climate action is more urgent than ever:' 3 Climate records broken in 2024

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

2024 has been another challenging year for Earth's climate, marked by record temperatures, extreme weather events, and urgent warnings from scientists about the accelerating pace of global warming.

Climate Change

Get ready for the 'New Year Comet': What to expect from Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3

By Jamie Carter published

Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3 could be set to wow sky-watchers at the beginning of 2025.

Comets
A solar flare erupts from the sun in a region circled in yellow

Sun unleashes massive X1.1 solar flare to close out 2024 (photo)

By Tariq Malik published

The huge solar flare may be the last big explosion from the sun this year.

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melting ice pours off the tip of an ice sheet

Watch Greenland lose 563 cubic miles of ice in under 30 seconds in disturbing new time-lapse video

By Stephanie Pappas published

Satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal 13 years of melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Climate Change
A solar flare shines as a bright light on the sun on Christmas Day, 2024.

Christmas solar flares erupt from the sun. Will they trigger aurora 'fireworks' as we close out 2024?

By Meredith Garofalo published

Sun pulses with several solar flares late Christmas Day with four M-class flares from sunspots within a few hours.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on August 12, 2018 on a mission to study the sun.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.

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gif animation showing the sun rising through the text 2025.

The sun in 2025: How the solar cycle will shape our year ahead

By Ryan French published

We look ahead to 2025 as the sun ramps up its activity, driven by the peak of the current solar cycle.

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