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Solar Orbiter makes first close approach to the sun
ESA's sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on June 15, getting as close as 77 million kilometers to its surface, about half the...
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars' atmosphere—the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth.
A quantum metrology protocol for locating noncooperative targets in 3-D space
Radar technology, which stands for radio detection and ranging, has been around for several decades and has a wide range of real-world applications. Radar is currently used to detect targets...
Martian rover motors ahead
European engineers, together with Canada, are working on the technologies needed to find and retrieve samples from Mars, as part of ESA’s plans to send material from the Red Planet...
Watch: Josh Gad says reunion specials have brought 'light' during dark times on 'Late Late Show'
Josh Gad appeared on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" and discussed his YouTube series, "Reunited Apart," which virtually reunites the casts of famous films.
Europe pushes ahead with 'dune buggy' Mars rover
Airbus-UK wins a contract to advance the design of a robot for the Red Planet with four big wheels.
Letters to the Editor: Trump broadcasts his racial and COVID-19 ignorance with his Tulsa rally
A campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., originally scheduled for Juneteenth, and amid the COVID-19 pandemic, says so much about Trump's ignorance.
FSSCat/Ф-sat-1 ready for launch
The first artificial intelligence to be carried onboard a European Earth observation mission will be launched this week from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The pioneering artificial intelligence technology...
PICASSO, ESA’s CubeSat to sift secrets from sunrise
There is always a sunrise and sunset happening somewhere on our planet. Soon ESA’s newest CubeSat – flying aboard Europe’s Vega launcher this Friday – will be keeping watch. The...
North Korean army threatens to enter demilitarized areas
North Korea's military warned Tuesday that it was preparing action plans against South Korea, including advancing into border zones that had been demilitarized under an inter-Korean agreement signed in 2018.
China postpones Beidou satellite launch over technical problem
China indefinitely postponed on Tuesday the launch of the final satellite of its Beidou navigation network because of technical problems in the rocket meant to launch it into orbit.
Partygoers have been packing Arizona bars. Now the state is a coronavirus hot spot
Data show that Arizona, which had seen a falling number of new coronavirus cases, recently marked its largest week-to-week increase since the pandemic began.
Watch: Hwasa shares intro for solo EP 'Maria'
K-pop star Hwasa released a video for "Nobody Else," the intro for her forthcoming mini album, "María."
While stargazing on Mars, Curiosity rover spots Earth and Venus
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover occasionally stops to stargaze. Recently, it captured a shot of Earth and Venus in the Red Planet's night sky.
Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycle
The group that previously studied Martian dust storms now shifts focus to the electrochemical processes resulting from dust storms that may power the movement of chlorine, which is ongoing on...
Mars: Green glow detected on the Red Planet
A joint European-Russian satellite observes a light in Mars’ atmosphere that's generated by oxygen.
Watch: 'Search Party' stars go on trial in Season 3 trailer
"Search Party," starring Alia Shawkat, John Reynolds, John Early and Meredith Hagner, will return June 25 on HBO Max.
Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycle
How's the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientists shows...
Why pulsars shine bright: A half-century-old mystery solved
When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals...
Janelle Monae, 'We're Here' cast to headline HBO's digital Pride celebration
Janelle Monáe, the "We're Here" cast, Kim Petras, Todrick Hall and other stars will perform or host events during HBO's virtual Pride celebration.
Storm hunter turns two
Image: The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor or ASIM, mounted outside the European laboratory of the International Space Station, enters its second year of science operations.Launched in April 2018, the payload began operating on 14...
Watch: 'Star Wars: Squadrons' promises epic spaceship battles in first trailer
Electronic Arts released on Monday the first trailer for upcoming "Star Wars" video game, "Star Wars: Squadrons."
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere – the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth.
Insight into the black hole at the center of our galaxy
Like most galaxies, the Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. Called Sagittarius A*, the object has captured astronomers' curiosity for decades. And now there is an...
Dozens of extraterrestrial civilizations likely exist in the universe, scientists say
In a newly published paper, scientists have offered a narrower estimate range for the number of possible extraterrestrial civilizations lurking within our home galaxy.
New light shed on intelligent life existing across the galaxy
Is there anyone out there? This is an age-old question that researchers have now shed new light on with a study that calculates there could be more than 30 intelligent...
Simba CubeSat to swivel from Earth to Sun to help track climate change
Due to launch aboard Europe’s next Vega rocket, ESA’s Simba CubeSat is a tiny mission with a big ambition: to measure one of the fundamental drivers of climate change in...
New lithium-rich Cepheid discovered in the Milky Way
Italian astronomers have reported the discovery of a new lithium-rich galactic Cepheid star, identified by high-resolution spectroscopic observations. The newfound object, designated V363 Cas, is the fifth lithium-rich classical Cepheid...