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Examining ice giants of our solar system
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will unlock secrets of the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune.
Betelgeuse: A massive star's dying breaths
Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention lately. The red supergiant is nearing the end of its life, and when a star over 10 times the mass of...
Akili McDowell to appear in 'Billions' Season 5
"David Makes Man" star Akili McDowell will have a major recurring role on the Showtime series "Billions."
Look: DPR Live teases 'Is Anybody Out There?' album
K-pop star DPR Live shared a space-themed video for his forthcoming album "Is Anybody Out There?"
R.I.P., MarCo! The world's first cubesats to Mars are gone for good
In September 2019, NASA started the second half of an epic game of Marco Polo; early this month the agency declared it over for good.
Report: Japan requested IAEA valuation of Fukushima plan
Japan has requested a valuation from the International Atomic Energy Agency of its plans to discharge contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Examining ice giants with NASA's Webb telescope
Far-flung Uranus and Neptune—the ice giants of our solar system—are as mysterious as they are distant. Soon after its launch in 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will change that...
Relativity Space will 3D-print rockets at new autonomous factory in Long Beach, California
Relativity Space, which aims to revolutionize spaceflight with its 3D-printed rockets, will soon be based out of a 120,000-square-foot (11,150 square meters) space in Long Beach, California, company representatives announced...
Naked mole rats migrate above ground with no help from the moon
A new study considers the role of the moon in driving a particularly rare occurrence: the solo journey of a naked mole rat from one underground colony to start a...
NASA's Armstrong Center: Flying what others only imagine
Chuck Yeager broke the "sound barrier" here. Neil Armstrong flew the X-15 here. Space Shuttles landed here 54 times. Now, Armstrong Flight Research Center is working on an electric airplane...
NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate Record
Portal origin URL: NASA Selects New Instrument to Continue Key Climate RecordPortal origin nid: 458497Published: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 16:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA has selected a new space-based...
Record-breaking Explosion by Black Hole Spotted
Portal origin URL: Record-breaking Explosion by Black Hole SpottedPortal origin nid: 458516Published: Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 11:26Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been...
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world
An astronomy student has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.
Look: Milla Jovovich wields a giant sword in new 'Monster Hunter' posters
Sony Pictures released on Friday new posters for its upcoming film adaptation of video game series "Monster Hunter" featuring star Milla Jovovich.
An iron-clad asteroid
Itokawa would normally be a fairly average near-Earth asteroid—a rocky mass measuring only a few hundred metres in diameter, which orbits the sun amid countless other celestial bodies and repeatedly...
Plasma jet deceleration could be caused by the interaction with the stars
Manel Perucho, professor of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Valencia has proposed an explanation for the origin of the deceleration of plasma jets (loss of...
Massive protostar keeps growing despite ionization heating by ultraviolet light
A gigantic embryonic star is still getting bigger, even though it propels vast plumes of hot gas away from itself, RIKEN astronomers have found. The discovery could help to solve...
The caved-in roof of a lava tube could be a good place to explore on Mars
Want to look inside a deep, dark pit on Mars? The scientists and engineers from the NASA's HiRISE Camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have done just that.
Watch: Alison Brie on 'She-Hulk' casting call: 'I find it interesting'
Alison Brie discussed on "The Late Late Show with James Corden" how Marvel is looking for an Alison Brie-type actress to portray She-Hulk.
Why leap years exist
Our months are made of lunar cycles, and we restart the year after the Earth has made one full rotation around the sun. But what happens when these cycles don’t sync up?...
Bad luck: How Al Crews missed out on becoming an astronaut — twice
Al Crews was in line to fly on the U.S. Air Force's Dyna-Soar space plane and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a secret spy project. But both programs were canceled before...
How scientists found Earth's new minimoon and why it won't stay here forever
A weird "minimoon" found circling Earth likely won't be there long.
Critical rocket escape system motor for NASA's Orion spacecrafy aces final test
NASA's Orion spacecraft has achieved a new milestone with a successful final test of the vehicle's attitude-control motor Tuesday (Feb. 25).
A black hole eruption marks the most powerful explosion ever spotted
Say hello to the Krakatoa of black hole eruptions. Hundreds of millions of years ago, a supermassive black hole in a far-off galaxy blew out gas into intergalactic space. The flare-up was about...
Earth from Space: Andros, Bahamas
Video: 00:02:58 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Andros, the largest island of the Bahamas.See also Andros, Bahamas to download...
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world
University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.
The most powerful black hole eruption in the Universe
Astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space observatories, along with radio telescopes on ground, have spotted the aftermath of the most powerful explosion ever seen in the Universe.
Robots Autonomously Navigate Underground in DARPA Challenge
Team CoSTAR, which includes NASA's JPL, Caltech and MIT engineers, placed first.