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HOPS 383: X-rays from a newborn star hint at our sun's earliest days
By detecting an X-ray flare from a very young star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have reset the timeline for when stars like the sun start blasting high-energy radiation...
A Cosmic Baby Is Discovered, and It's Brilliant
Portal origin URL: A Cosmic Baby Is Discovered, and It's BrilliantPortal origin nid: 461988Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 09:31Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Born from an exploded star, the infant...
Astronomers make composition drawing of elusive wandering black holes
When two galaxies collide, their central black holes merge, emitting gravitational waves. Astronomers theorize that a recoil effect sometimes kicks the merged black hole out of the galaxy while dragging...
Call for Media: ESA, NASA and JAXA to unveil COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard
Press Release N° 10–2020 ESA, NASA and JAXA invite the general public and media representatives to participate in an online media conference on Thursday, 25 June, at 09:00 EDT (15:00 CEST)...
Launch is approaching for NASA's next Mars rover, Perseverance
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date. The rover's astrobiology mission will seek signs of past microscopic life on Mars, explore...
Watch: Rachel Lindsay 'hated the timing' of Matt James 'Bachelor' casting
"Bachelorette" alum Rachel Lindsay reacted to Matt James being cast as the first black Bachelor.
Report: North Korea troops detected at DMZ, disputed maritime border
North Korea's military appeared to be moving to the frontlines near the South as a U.S. reconnaissance plane flew over the peninsula, following days of threats and provocations from Pyongyang.
This supernova in a lab mimics the cosmic blast's splendid aftermath
Mystery enshrouds the birth of swirls typical for supernova remnants like the Crab Nebula. A new 'supernova machine' may help solve it.
Chelsea signs RB Leipzig soccer star Timo Werner
Premier League power Chelsea FC have signed star striker Timo Werner from German Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.
Dolphins star Xavien Howard won't be suspended for domestic incident
Miami Dolphins star cornerback Xavien Howard will not be suspended by the NFL after his December arrest on a domestic battery charge.
Black hole plasma jets are shaped like bell-bottoms
Jets of high-energy plasma shooting away from supermassive black holes resemble bell-bottom pants — starting out narrow but ending with a flare. The shape can help astrophysicists tease out how such jets are...
The Milky Way could have dozens of alien civilizations capable of contacting us
We’ve been sending out radio signals for about into the galaxy for a century. Have other civilizations been doing the same? (Pixabay/)With astronomers constantly discovering new exoplanets orbiting distant stars and planetary scientists...
NASA's next Mars rover honors medical teams fighting virus
NASA's next Mars rover is honoring all the medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus battle around the world.
Hulu: What's coming and going in July 2020
"Palm Springs," starring Andy Samberg, "90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days" Season 3 and "CMA: Best of Fest" are headed to Hulu.
'Ghostbusters' perfect just the way it is, Ernie Hudson says
Ernie Hudson discusses the original "Ghostbusters" and upcoming "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." He's just participated in the new documentary "Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters" premiering Thursday.
Florissant, Mo., officer charged with assault for hitting suspect with SUV
Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a former Florissant, Mo., police detective with assault after he was caught on camera appearing to strike a suspect with an SUV.
4,000th comet discovered by ESA and NASA Solar Observatory
On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO -- the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft's 25-year...
NASA's IBEX charts 11 years of change at boundary to interstellar space
Now, for the first time, scientists have used an entire solar cycle of data from NASA's IBEX spacecraft to study how the heliosphere changes over time. Solar cycles last roughly...
Dark matter hunt yields unexplained signal
The Xenon 1T experiment may have found signs of a previously undetected dark matter particle.
Astronomers observe rare newborn star
Astronomers have spotted a rare newborn star located 16,000 light-years away.
Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from quasars is not concentrated in the region close to their...
NASA's new Mars mission will take at least a decade to confirm life
NASA's new microbe-hunting Mars rover, scheduled for launch July 20, is the most sophisticated rover yet, but it will still take at least a decade to confirm if samples it...
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
A team of astronomers has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away.
Look: Jeff Daniels is James Comey in 'The Comey Rule' photos
"The Comey Rule," starring Jeff Daniels as James Comey and Brendan Gleeson as President Donald Trump, will premiere on Showtime in November.
Chemistry helps reconstruct the origin of 2017 ruthenium plume
Samples from Viennese air filters help piece together the details of a controversial nuclear accident
Bette Midler, Dan Levy, Issa Rae to star in HBO's 'Coastal Elites' special
"Coastal Elites," a comic satire special from Paul Rudnick and Jay Roach, will premiere on HBO in September.
A cosmic baby is discovered, and it's brilliant
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of years ago, and objects that...
Observation of excess events in the XENON1T dark matter experiment
Scientists from the international XENON collaboration, an international experimental group including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), University of Tokyo; the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research...