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For solar eclipse safety, here's what drivers should not do on the road during the rare event

The sun, the moon and the Earth will all align in a North American solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. Millions of Americans from Texas to Maine, who are in the path of totality, will be able to experience the atmospheric moment at its peak. The eclipse could last up to four minutes. Another eclipse will not occur again until …

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Schools across US embrace rare teaching opportunity offered by 2024 solar eclipse

Seventh-grade student Henry Cohen bounced side to side in time to the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” playing in teacher Nancy Morris’ classroom, swinging his arms open and closed across the planets pictured on his T-shirt. Henry and other classmates at Cleveland’s Riverside School were on their feet, dancing during a session of activities tied to April’s total solar eclipse. …

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How the Dream Chaser spaceplane plans to shake up space travel in the future

Imagine, just for a second, stepping into a world where space travel isn’t just for astronauts, but for everyone, including you. Now, picture the Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane and its Shooting Star cargo module, all lit up in soft blue lights at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. This isn’t just some cool tech on display; it’s …

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Russian Soyuz spacecraft with 3 astronauts docks at the International Space Station

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts successfully docked Monday at the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus reached the space outpost after Saturday’s blastoff from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan that followed an aborted launch attempt two days earlier. RUSSIA’S WAR …

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Solar eclipse 2024: Former NASA astronaut shares what it looks like from space, how to safely view it yourself

A rare atmospheric occurrence will happen on Monday, April 8: a solar eclipse. Millions of Americans within the path of totality will be able to clearly see the moon and the sun overlap. Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts spoke with Fox News Digital ahead of this year’s solar eclipse to detail his experience in space —and what it was like …

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Geomagnetic storm hits Earth creating northern lights, disrupting radio communications

A geomagnetic storm is expected to last through Monday, possibly disrupting radio communications but making for great aurora viewing. These high-frequency radio transmissions include aircrafts trying to communicate with distant traffic control towers. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado issued geomagnetic storm watches for Sunday and Monday as a “coronal mass ejection,” or CME, was headed for Earth. …

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Trending in Lifestyle: Solar eclipse prompts school closures, a shocking Goodwill find and more

This week, Fox News Digital drew readers to an array of trending Lifestyle topics that involved solar eclipse news, a Goodwill find gone viral, a senior furry friend and much more. Fun quizzes and crosswords are always available to dive into as well. (Fox News Digital publishes daily crossword puzzles seven days a week.) TRENDIEST VIRAL HEADLINES OF THE WEEK …

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Meet the American who wrote the moon-landing software: Margaret Hamilton, computer whiz mom

The Apollo 11 moon landing was one giant leap for womankind. Credit Margaret Hamilton, a 32-year-old mother and computer whiz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wrote the software that placed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969. She also worked on the five moon-landing missions that followed. MEET THE AMERICAN WHO CREATED AIR …

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April's solar eclipse could be the best yet for NASA scientific experiments, officials say

April’s total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes — and cosmic chance. The moon will be extra close to Earth, providing a long and intense period of darkness, and the sun should be more active with the potential for dramatic bursts of plasma. Then there’s totality’s densely populated corridor stretching from Mexico …

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For solar eclipse on April 8, some US schools will be closed for the day

Many schools across the U.S. are rethinking their class schedules for April 8, 2024 — the day a solar eclipse will hit North America. The eclipse’s line of totality — the areas where the sun will experience total coverage — will span 15 states, according to NASA. The eclipse route will travel from Mexico, arching northeast from Texas to Ohio …

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