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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has postponed elections for about four weeks on Monday over a cluster of new cases of coronavirus in Auckland, a major city on the country’s north island. The announcement comes after the government earlier this month placed Auckland under a two-week lockdown and stopped …

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Stephen Hummel, who works at McDonald Observatory in West Texas, captured this cheerful lightning sprite – aka a red sprite – on July 2, 2020. McDonald Observatory is a spearhead for a Dark Skies Initiative in his region. Stephen commented, “Dark skies help you …

Gold prices rose higher on Monday, partly supported by a slide in government bond yields and the US dollar, which were the attraction of the precious commodity. But the yellow metal may also have attracted extra interest after a public submission that offered a glimpse of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway …

There can be life in the clouds of Venus, and Rocket Lab wants to help find it. The California-based space agency, that gives small spaceship dedicated trips to Earth Earth, intends to soon go interplanetary, with a robotic astrobiological mission to the second rock from the sun. “I’m crazy in …

On Sunday, the thermometer at Death Valley’s Furnace Creek, in the deserts of Southern California, went to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center. If checked, it would be the warmest temperature recorded in the US since 1913, and perhaps the warmest temperature ever reliable in the world. …