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The European Space Agency said an approximately 3-foot-wide asteroid struck Earth over the western Pacific on Wednesday afternoon. The asteroid was given the name of ‘2024 RW1’ and according to the ESA, the event was only the ninth incident that had been spotted prior to impact.

September is historically the peak of hurricane season, when there is the highest chance of tracking a cyclone across the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, but some years turn out to be more active than others.

Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis was declared the winner, with their Victoria ‘Longwood Hybrid’ Waterlily holding 142.5 pounds of weight and measuring five feet in diameter.

Europa, a NASA spacecraft named after the Jupiter moon it will study, could launch as soon as mid-October, beginning the journey to reveal if this suspected waterworld might support life.

Two areas of low pressure will be tracked around the Northeast this weekend, which will lead to breezy and rainy weather at times. Forecast models show the heaviest rainfall is likely to occur around the Great Lakes, in association with a low-pressure center entering from Canada.

After flooding from heavy rain temporarily shut down the San Antonio Zoo, officials said the zoo will reopen to the public Wednesday.

NASA is preparing to bring home Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft autonomously on Friday, concluding the vehicle’s first test flight with astronauts plagued with problems before the spacecraft left Earth.

Hotels on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park will reopen Thursday after park officials temporarily suspended overnight accommodations days before Labor Day weekend.

Dozens of spectators and photographers converged at a specific spot in San Francisco on Tuesday to witness a celestial phenomenon: the California Henge.