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Space scientists use COVID-19 lockdown as dry run for Mars mission
French space scientists are using the COVID-19 lockdown as a dry run for what it will be like to be cooped up inside a space craft on a mission to...
Scientists enthralled by biggest star explosion ever observed
Scientists have observed the biggest supernova - stellar explosion - ever detected, the violent death of a huge star up to 100 times more massive than our sun in a...
Event Horizon Telescope observes a black hole-powered jet
One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M87. The collaboration has now extracted additional new information from the...
NASA Missions Help Reveal the Power of Shock Waves in a Nova Explosion
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Solar power plants get help from satellites to predict cloud cover
The output of solar energy systems is highly dependent on cloud cover. While weather forecasting can be used to predict the amount of sunlight reaching ground-based solar collectors, cloud cover...
Researchers working to detect, track tornadoes
The cold whipping across an Alabama field on this winter morning slaps away the warmth, slowly forcing fingers and toes numb.
Methane forms under space conditions in laboratory
An international team of astronomers has shown in a laboratory at Leiden University (the Netherlands) that methane can form on icy dust particles in space. The possibility had existed for...
UK launches space-based response to Covid-19 pandemic
Some £2.6 million to develop space-enabled technology and services that can strengthen the NHS’s response to coronavirus has been launched today by the UK Space Agency in collaboration with ESA.
Playing Lacrosse on Titan
PROJECT Integrated Sampling System (ISS) for Ocean Worlds SNAPSHOT Honeybee Robotics has developed a pneumatic based sample acquisition and transfer system that is self-metering, gravity agnostic, works with sticky materials, and is flexible...
College basketball: Arizona State gets highest-rated recruit since James Harden
College hoops prospect Josh Christopher has committed to the Arizona State University men's basketball program, becoming the Sun Devils' highest-rated recruit since James Harden in 2007.
This rural Nevada town lacked coronavirus news. A radio station came to the rescue
A struggling radio station stepped up and became an unlikely hero in a Nevada desert town hungry for news on the coronavirus.
Comet Atlas is falling apart, new photos confirm
Just a month ago, it looked like Atlas might put on a dazzling sky show around the time of its closest approach to the sun, which occurs on May 31....
'At least something worked': Watch Apollo 13's crew hail a rocket crash on the moon
After piloting a crippled spacecraft around the far side of the moon, the crew of NASA's stricken Apollo 13 received a rare bit of good news on April 14, 1970....
A huge cloud of invisible particles seems to be missing from the Milky Way
A key signal for a certain kind of dark matter failed to turn up in a search throughout the Milky Way. Now scientists are disagreeing about what that means.
Travel to far-off places and far back in time through VR
Bob McDonald's science blog: Here are some exotic locations you can visit virtually while you're physically distancing at home.
Apollo 13 was a near-disaster that became a triumph — now you can experience it in real time
A website launched for the 50th anniversary of the heart-wrenching mission allows you to experience the mission through audio and video.
WWE Raw: Drew McIntyre takes on Andrade, Seth Rollins strikes
WWE Champion Drew McIntyre went head-to-head with United States Champion Andrade in a champion vs. champion match on Raw.
Galactic bulge modeling sheds light on galaxy evolution
Using data from the CALIFA Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) survey and advanced modeling tools, researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) have obtained important results about the...
Time-traveling ESA team explore a virtual moon
If someone had been watching as Apollo 15's Falcon Lunar Module headed down beside the moon's Appenine mountains in 1971, then this is what they would have seen. ESA researchers,...
100th lunar asteroid collision confirmed by second telescope
Since March 2017, ESA’s NELIOTA project has been regularly looking out for ‘lunar flashes’ on the Moon, to help us better understand the threat posed by small asteroid impacts. The project...
Time-travelling ESA team explore a virtual Moon
If someone had been watching as Apollo 15’s Falcon Lunar Module headed down beside the Moon’s Appenine mountains in 1971, then this is what they would have seen. ESA researchers,...
NASA advances food-in-space technology
NASA is prepared to plant new varieties and bigger quantities of food in gardens on the International Space Station as part of its planned Moon to Mars program.
Mother of Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns dies from coronavirus
Jacqueline Cruz-Towns, the mother of Minnesota Timberwolves star big man Karl-Anthony Towns, died due to complications from the coronavirus. She was 58.
Intuitive Machines targets vast 'Ocean of Storms' valley for private moon lander in 2021
Intuitive Machines' robotic Nova-C spacecraft will touch down near Vallis Schröteri, the largest valley on the moon, on its initial delivery mission for NASA in October 2021.
Piercing the dark birthplaces of massive stars
High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our Sun, live hard and die young. They often end their short lives in violent explosions called supernovas, but...
New formation theory explains the mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua
Since its discovery in 2017, an air of mystery has surrounded the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system, an elongated, cigar-shaped body named 'Oumuamua. How was it...
You can see the moon shine with Jupiter, Saturn and Mars before dawn this week. Here's how.
The predawn hours this week will sparkle as Jupiter, Saturn and Mars dance around the moon on consecutive mornings.
Shockwaves account for bright light produced during nova explosions
High-resolution observations of a nova explosion, including images captured by a pair of NASA missions, suggest shock waves are responsible for producing most of the light generated during an outburst.