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Titan is Migrating Away from Saturn 100 Times Faster than Previously Predicted
By Earthly standards, Saturn’s moon Titan is a strange place. Larger than the planet Mercury, Titan is swaddled in a thick atmosphere (it is the only moon in the solar...
Sunlight cracking rocks on Bennu
Asteroids don't just sit there doing nothing as they orbit the Sun. They get bombarded by meteoroids, blasted by space radiation, and now, for the first time, scientists are seeing...
Lightweight Mirrors Enhance Power Generation Near Gas Giants
PROJECT Extreme Environments Solar Power (EESP) Project demonstration of Transformational Array elements on DART SNAPSHOT The EESP Project is developing advanced solar cell and concentrator technology that will be flight-tested on the upcoming...
At the heart of the Milky Way, stars draw closer, threatening planets in their orbit
At the center of our galaxy resides the galactic bulge, a densely packed region of stars, dust and gas. Within this massive structure, which spans thousands of light-years, there are...
Research study improves solar radiation forecasting models by 30%
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad de Jaen (UJA) have published a study reporting an optimal blending of solar radiation forecasting models with which they...
Planet's satellites aim for still sharper view of Earth
Some locations on Earth, such as the UK, will be pictured at high resolution up to 12 times a day.
WWE Raw: Asuka and Charlotte Flair collide
Raw Women's Champion Asuka reignited her rivalry with Charlotte Flair in the main event of Raw.
Direct Proof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers
Mysterious effects in a new generation of dark matter detectors could herald a revolutionary discovery -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Space-enabled mobile bio-lab to test key workers for COVID-19
A deployable laboratory that can test frontline healthcare staff, civil protection volunteers and police forces for the coronavirus has left Belgium and is on its way to Piedmont, Italy.Italy has...
North Korea to cut communication lines with the South
North Korea said it will sever all communications with South Korea after days of angry rhetoric over leaflets being sent across its border by defectors, state-run media reported on Tuesday...
UAE Mars mission: Hope project a 'real step forward for exploration'
The UAE's Hope project is hailed as a "real step forward" for space exploration in the Arab world.
Titan is migrating away from Saturn 100 times faster than previously predicted
By Earthly standards, Saturn's moon Titan is a strange place. Larger than the planet Mercury, Titan is swaddled in a thick atmosphere (it is the only moon in the solar...
Boss fires Hartley Sawyer from 'The Flash' over racism, misogyny, homophobia
Actor Hartley Sawyer's boss has fired him from "The Flash" over racism and misogyny surfacing in his tweets.
Shock waves created in the lab mimic astrophysical particle accelerators powered by exploding stars
When stars explode as supernovas, they produce shock waves in the plasma surrounding them. So powerful are these shock waves, they can act as particle accelerators that blast streams of...
Mayim Bialik to host 'Celebrity Show-Off,' TBS announces
TBS announced Monday that Mayim Bialik, of "The Big Bang Theory," will host the Celebrity Show-Off, a talent show premiering June 23.
Saturn's Moon Titan Drifting Away Faster Than Previously Thought
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Shock waves created in the lab mimic supernova particle accelerators
Scientists have found new details about how supernovas boost charged particles to nearly the speed of light.
Astronomers find elusive target hiding behind dust
Some young, still-forming stars are surrounded by regions of complex organic molecules called ''hot corinos.'' In some pairs of young stars forming together as binary pairs, astronomers found a hot...
First global map of rockfalls on the Moon
A research team counted over 136,000 rockfalls on the moon caused by asteroid impacts. Even billions of years old landscapes are still changing.
Watch: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried visit haunted house in 'You Should Have Left' trailer
Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star in "You Should Have Left," a psychological thriller based on the Daniel Kehlmann novel.
157 day cycle in unusual cosmic radio bursts
An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year observing campaign.
China will begin constructing its space station in 2021
The Chinese space agency is building a brand new space station, and they're going about it in a suitably impressive way: an ambitious schedule of 11 planned launches crammed into...
Checking out iron under pressure
Iron is the most stable and heaviest chemical element produced by nucleosynthesis in stars, making it the most abundant heavy element in the universe and in the interiors of Earth...
Watch: Beyonce, Obamas, Katy Perry celebrate grads during YouTube special
Beyoncé, Barack and Michelle Obama, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and other stars took part in YouTube's "Dear Class of 2020" stream.
First global map of rockfalls on the moon
A research team from ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen counted over 136,000 rockfalls on the moon caused by asteroid impacts. Even billions...
Fix for Mars lander 'mole' may be working
Representatives from NASA's InSight project have reported via Twitter that efforts by the team at the German Aerospace Center (GAC) to push a probe called the Heat Flow and Physical...
Astronomers find elusive target hiding behind dust
Astronomers acting on a hunch have likely resolved a mystery about young, still-forming stars and regions rich in organic molecules closely surrounding some of them. They used the National Science...
Cosmic quasars embrace 1970s fashion trend
Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars—spinning black holes that produce beams of plasma. The team has found that the shape of these...