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Nasa Mars 2020 Mission's MiMi Aung on women in space
At 16, MiMi Aung travelled alone to the US for an education. Now she's a project lead on Nasa's Mars mission.
Key questions about the Perseverance rover
We answer some common questions about the America's Perseverance rover mission to Mars.
Watch live: President Donald Trump visits border wall, youth rally in Arizona
President Donald Trump will visit Arizona Tuesday for events that include a trip to a border wall site and a speech at a Phoenix church, a schedule that's drawn concern...
Name given to asteroid target of ESA’s planetary defence mission
The destination of ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence – a tiny asteroid moonlet – has finally received its official name. After years of informal nicknames and temporary designations, the...
CGCS 673 is a semi-regular variable carbon star, study finds
Astronomers from Malta and Spain have conducted an observational campaign aimed at investigating the periodic behavior of a carbon star known as CGCS 673. The observations found that the studied...
Breakthrough Listen releases catalog of "Exotica" – objects of interest as "technosignatures"
Breakthrough Listen, the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe, today released an innovative catalog of "Exotica"—a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronomers searching...
Experiment confirms 50-year-old theory describing how an alien civilization could exploit a black hole
A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a black hole to generate energy has been experimentally verified for the first time in a...
Frigid Pluto began as a warm place with an underground ocean, study suggests
Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on...
Virgin Galactic signs NASA deal for commercial space flights
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. has agreed to a deal with NASA to boost commercial human spaceflight to the International Space Station and develop a "robust economy" in space.
Space Station stitch
Image: This panorama of the International Space Station is a wider view of what ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was capturing on camera during the first of a series of historic spacewalks that...
China launches final satellite in GPS-like Beidou system
China on Tuesday launched the final satellite in its Beidou constellation that emulates and may seek to compete with the U.S. Global Positioning System, marking a further step in the...
Life in the galaxy: maybe this is as good as it gets?
Researchers have found that rocky exoplanets which formed early in the life of the galaxy seem to have had a greater chance of developing a magnetic field and plate tectonics...
LAX will try thermal cameras to spot travelers with COVID-19
Thermal cameras are the latest technology being tested to battle COVID-19 at Los Angeles International Airport.
Dirac electrons come back to life in magic-angle graphene
A new symmetry-broken parent state has been discovered in twisted bilayer graphene.
Young giant planet offers clues to formation of exotic worlds
For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25...
Watch: Starz shares trailer for strip club drama 'P-Valley'
"P-Valley," starring Brandee Evans, Elarica Johnson and Nicco Annan, will premiere July 12 on Starz.
Virgin Galactic signs agreement with NASA
Virgin Galactic announced Monday an agreement with NASA allowing it to develop a private astronaut readiness program for trips to the International Space Station.
New research deepens mystery of particle generation in proton collisions
A group of researchers including scientists from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, University of Tokyo, Nagoya University, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) used the spin-polarized Relativistic...
Future space travelers may follow cosmic lighthouses
For centuries, lighthouses helped sailors navigate safely into harbor. Their lights swept across the water, cutting through fog and darkness, guiding mariners around dangerous obstacles and keeping them on the...
Paris Jackson to star in Facebook Watch series 'Unfiltered'
Paris Jackson and her boyfriend, Gabriel Glenn, will star in "Unfiltered," a new docuseries that follows the couple's band, The Soundflowers.
TRACERS heliophysics mission enters Phase B
NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission to proceed to Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design. The...
Listen: Bright Eyes shares 'Mariana Trench' from new album
Bright Eyes released the song "Mariana Trench" and confirmed a new album, "Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was."
Gerard Butler joins action thriller 'Kandahar'
Gerard Butler has signed up to star in an upcoming action thriller from director Ric Roman Waugh titled "Kandahar."
Evidence supports 'hot start' scenario and early ocean formation on Pluto
The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite...
Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Shakira to perform during 'Global Goal' concert
Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber and Quavo, Shakira, Coldplay, Usher and other stars will perform during a Global Citizen special for COVID-19 relief.
CTA prototype LST-1 detects very high-energy emission from the Crab Nebula pulsar
Between January and February 2020, the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST), the LST-1, observed the Crab Pulsar, the neutron star at the centre of the Crab Nebula. The telescope, which is...
Scientists collaborate on new study to search the universe for signs of technological civilizations
Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures,...
Space Hub Sutherland recommended for approval
Highland councillors will vote on Friday on the Space Hub proposals, after receiving 457 objections.