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Watch: Arizona State punter Michael Turk steals show with 25 bench press reps at combine
Former Arizona State punter Michael Turk turned in a superhuman effort in the bench press at the NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday in Indianapolis.
Scientists detect biggest explosion since Big Bang
The blast in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster left a cavity 15 times bigger than our Milky Way galaxy.
Tony Hale to star in Hulu's 'Mysterious Benedict Society'
Emmy-winning actor Tony Hale has signed on to play a kindly genius and his evil twin brother in a new Hulu series.
Suns' Kelly Oubre Jr. could miss rest of season with torn meniscus in right knee
Phoenix Suns forward Kelly Oubre Jr. is expected to miss the remainder of the 2019-20 season because of a torn meniscus in his right knee.
How NASA Watches Water, LIVE on Australian Radio
John Bolten, from NASA's Water Resources Program, got up early in the morning U.S. East Coast time on February 19, 2020 to be a guest on the live Australian radio program "Late...
'Star Trek: Picard' beams up its best yet in episode 6
Strap yourselves in as "Star Trek: Picard" accelerates from impulse drive to warp factor four with the longest episode yet – and the best we've seen so far.
Northrop Grumman test fires new OmegA rocket second stage motor in Utah
The second stage for Northrop Grumman's new OmegA rocket roared to life in a test that sent flame and smoke billowing out against the snow-capped mountains of Utah.
Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe
Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe. Scientists reported Thursday that the blast came from a super-massive black hole in a cluster of galaxies 390 million light-years...
Crater on Earth offers clues to Mars' watery past
For clues as to what a watery Mars would have looked like, scientists turned to a crater on Earth, the Nordlinger Ries crater in southern Germany.
Boom! Scientists spot the biggest known explosion in the universe
A gargantuan explosion tore through the heart of a distant galaxy cluster, releasing about five times more energy than the previous record holder, a new study reports.
The solar nebula origin of (486958) Arrokoth, a primordial contact binary in the Kuiper Belt
The New Horizons spacecraft’s encounter with the cold classical Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69) revealed a contact-binary planetesimal. We investigated how Arrokoth formed and found that...
The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth
The Cold Classical Kuiper Belt, a class of small bodies in undisturbed orbits beyond Neptune, is composed of primitive objects preserving information about Solar System formation. In January 2019, the...
Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth
The outer Solar System object (486958) Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69) has been largely undisturbed since its formation. We studied its surface composition using data collected by the New Horizons...
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre...
Watch: Netflix shares teaser for Damien Chazelle's 'The Eddy'
"The Eddy," starring André Holland, Joanna Kulig and Amandla Stenberg, will premiere May 8 on Netflix.
Earth has a new mini-moon, but don’t get too attached
Space rocks much smaller than our moon might occasionally get stuck in our cosmic backyard. (Deposit Photos/)For the last two and a half years, the Earth may have had two moons. There’s...
Naked mole rats migrate above ground with no help from the moon
A full moon conjures an image of a person transforming into a werewolf—a mythical story of moonlight explaining the unexplainable. While werewolves may only exist in the movies, unusual animal...
'Star Wars: The High Republic' revealed: New books will introduce a bygone Jedi era
"Star Wars" is starting an epic "storytelling initiative" to fill out the history of the franchise some 200 years before the events of the 1999 movie "Star Wars: The Phantom...
Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang.
Two private satellites just docked in space in historic first for orbital servicing
In a historic first for satellite operations, one spacecraft "helper" docked with a working satellite to provide life-extension services.
Possible new 'minimoon' discovered orbiting Earth
Astronomers discovered a 'minimoon' that's been orbiting Earth for about three years, and may soon leave our planet's orbit.
Like snowflakes, soot particles are unique, affecting climate modeling
Black carbon particles—more commonly known as soot—absorb heat in the atmosphere. For years, scientists have known that these particles are affecting Earth's warming climate, but measuring their exact effect has...
How to see Venus shining with the moon tonight
Tonight (Feb. 27), as darkness is falling, be sure to look toward the west-southwest sky to spot another beautiful celestial tableau formed by a lovely crescent moon and the brilliant...
How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars...
Distant star and planet get new Cree language names from national contest
A giant planet 344 light-years from Earth and the star it orbits have new names in the Cree language, thanks to a national contest.
NASA selects new instrument to continue key climate record
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosphere and...
Earth's new 'moon': What you should know
The Minor Planet Centre has just announced that the Earth has been orbited by a second moon for the past three years or so. But while excitement about the discovery...
Exoplanet twice the size of Earth could have right conditions for life
Astronomers have found a large exoplanet that could have the right conditions for life.