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Upward-Shooting ‘Blue Jet’ Lightning Spotted From International Space Station

Photo via European Space Agency Article by Nicoletta Lanese, Live Science Scientists on the International Space Station spotted a bright-blue lightning bolt shooting upward from thunderclouds. Blue jets can be difficult to spot from the ground, since the electrical discharges erupt from the tops of thunderclouds. But...

Watch Hemp Launch Into Space Tonight On A SpaceX Rocket

Image by Herbal Hemp from Pixabay Article by Jonathan Small, Green Entrepreneur Hemp might not get you high, but it's about to go really high, some 220 miles above the earth, as cargo aboard a SpaceX CRS-20 en route to the International Space Station. The journey to the final...

China’s Chang’e-4 Makes Historic Landing on Dark Side of the Moon

Photo via CGTN (CNSA Photo) Article by Hu Yiwei, Wu Lei via CGTN China's Chang'e-4 probe successfully landed on the far side of the Moon at 10:26 a.m. BJT Thursday. This is the first ever soft-landing on this previously uncharted area. The dark side is never visible from...