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Astronomers spot star dancing around black hole according to Einstein's theory
Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star "dancing" around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted...
In photos: Astronauts return to Earth from International Space Station
NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka landed in Kazakhstan on April 17, 2020, returning from months working aboard the International Space Station. The travelers...
Astronauts return from months in space to Earth changed by pandemic
Two astronauts and a cosmonaut landed on Earth at 1:16 a.m. EDT Friday, completing their mission aboard the International Space Station.
ESA helps analyse untouched Moon rocks
Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aces asteroid-sampling dress rehearsal
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is getting ready to scoop a sample of asteroid Bennu, has successfully completed a partial dress rehearsal for its historic trip to the asteroid's surface.
Astronomers spot quasar with the most powerful winds ever seen
Scientists took a second look at a strange object and spotted the most powerful winds ever seen gusting off of a special flavor of black hole called a quasar.
A weird stellar explosion may have caused the brightest supernova yet seen
The brightest supernova ever seen may be the first known example of a rare type of stellar explosion. The supernova, spotted in 2016 in a galaxy about 4.6 billion light-years away, radiated...
Jazz's Mike Conley beats Bulls' Zach LaVine to win H-O-R-S-E challenge
Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley Jr. beat Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine in the championship of the NBA's first H-O-R-S-E competition airing on ESPN amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Astronauts depart space station Thursday to a changed world
Two astronauts and a cosmonaut are scheduled to depart from the International Space Station at 9:53 p.m. EDT Thursday after concluding their mission.
Views of Earth from BepiColombo’s flyby
Video: 00:00:33 A compilation of about 200 images collected by the joint European-Japanese mission BepiColombo during its first – and only – flyby of Earth on 10 April 2020, a manoeuvre needed...
Space is hard - mission control after Apollo 13
Apollo 13 has been called ‘NASA's finest hour’. What was meant to have been the third lunar landing in April 1970, 50 years ago, became a struggle to safely return...
Earth from Space: Montevideo
Video: 00:02:39 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Montevideo – the capital and largest city of Uruguay. See also Montevideo, Uruguay to download the image.
ISS crew lands in Kazakhstan after more than 200 days
A U.S.-Russian space crew landed safely Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan, greeted with extra precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
UPI News Quiz: 'essential' TV, COVID-19 elections, life in quarantine
'Essential' TV, elections during a pandemic, life via video -- how closely did you watch the headlines this week? Take the UPI News Quiz for April 17, 2020.
On This Day, April 17: Apollo 13 returns to Earth
On April 17, 1970, Apollo 13, a U.S. lunar spacecraft that sustained a severe malfunction on its journey to the moon, safely returned to Earth.
Soyuz MS-15 safely lands with US, Russian crew from space station
NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, who launched to the International Space Station 50 years to the day after the first astronauts landed on the moon, has safely returned to Earth on...
Coronavirus forces detour for homecoming astronauts
NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual - and more exhausting - route home after safely landing in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, a Russian healthcare...
Watch live: Astronauts depart space station Thursday to a changed world
Two astronauts and a cosmonaut are scheduled to depart from the International Space Station at 9:53 p.m. EDT Thursday after concluding their mission.
New clues to predict the risks astronauts will face from space radiation on long missions
Researchers used a novel approach to test assumptions in a model used by NASA to predict health risks for astronauts.
Chile astronomers discover star dancing according to Einstein´s century-old theory
Astronomers in Chile using one of the world's largest telescopes have found a star "dancing" around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted...
Are L.A. restaurants and diners ready for masked servers and temperature checks?
There's a "new normal" coming to L.A. restaurants. Chefs and diners weigh in.
CHEOPS space telescope ready for scientific operation
CHEOPS has reached its next milestone: Following extensive tests in Earth's orbit, some of which the mission team was forced to carry out from home due to the coronavirus crisis,...
Three space travelers will return to Earth tonight! Here's how to watch live.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will return three crewmembers back to Earth from the International Space Station early Friday (April 17). Here's how to watch it live.
Telescope spies tango between star, black hole, proves Einstein right
The orbital pattern of star dancing around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way looks like a rosette -- the pattern predicted by Einstein's general theory...
Watch: Twice shows highs, lows in 'Seize the Light' special trailer
K-pop stars Twice released a new preview of "Twice: Seize the Light," a YouTube Originals series exploring their 2019 world tour.
How souvenirs standing in for moon rocks helped save Apollo 13 fifty years ago
After the explosion and the course correction that brought them back to Earth, the Apollo 13 astronauts still had a problem. Missing moon rocks. The solution, 50 years ago, was......
3-D printing and Moon dust: An astronaut's kit for future space exploration?
One of the major challenges related to space exploration is the development of production technologies capable of exploiting the few resources available in extra-terrestrial environments. Laser 3-D printing of lunar...
Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
A reanalysis of data from NASA's Kepler space telescope has revealed an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could...