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Look: 'Elite' stars assemble in Season 3 key art
"Elite," starring Itzan Escamilla, Miguel Bernardeau, Álvaro Rico, Arón Piper and Mina El Hammani, returns March 13 on Netflix.
An ultraviolet instrument for ESA's Jupiter mission
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon...
This is how ESA telescope Euclid is going to visualize dark matter
How can you see something that's invisible? Well, with Euclid! This future ESA telescope will map the structure of the universe and teach us more about invisible dark matter and...
For lemurs, water holes are a matter of taste
It's 1 p.m. and you're only halfway through a six-hour hike, climbing in steep terrain under a 100° cloudless sky. Your water bottle is nearly empty, and you've heard the...
Radio waves detect particle showers in a block of plastic
When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the...
Two new double-lined spectroscopic binary white dwarfs identified by astronomers
A team of U.S.-Canadian astronomers has conducted radial velocity observations of four binary white dwarf candidates. They report that two of them, designated WD 0311−649 and WD 1606+422, are apparently...
NASA, New Zealand Partner to Collect Climate Data from Commercial Aircraft
The program is part of NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, a constellation of eight small satellites, launched in 2016, that use signals from Global Positioning System (GPS)...
Watch: BTS says it's 'an honor' to have fans worldwide on 'Tonight Show'
BTS took over "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" to discuss their careers, take questions from fans and to perform "ON."
Researchers create new state of light
For 20 years, researchers have studied how light rotates around a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction light travels. But could it move in other ways? After two years of...
A year of surprising science from NASA's InSight Mars mission
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published today reveal...
Alien-life hunters are eyeing icy ocean moons Europa and Enceladus
As the hunt for life on Mars starts getting into full swing, some scientists are already looking beyond the Red Planet, to our solar system's next astrobiological frontier.
On the far side of the moon, Chinese lander and rover begin 15th lunar day
China's Chang'e 4 mission has entered its 15th lunar day of work on the far side of the moon, with both the lander and Yutu 2 rover still in good...
NASA picks moon catapults, lasers, electricity and other wild lunar projects for student contest
NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to student teams looking to deploy robots, towers and other small vehicles alongside moon-roving astronauts.
NASA has a new idea to get the InSight lander's 'mole' on Mars digging again
The "mole" aboard NASA's Mars InSight lander is about to get yet another push.
Future space detector LISA could reveal the secret life and death of stars
A team of astrophysicists led by Ph.D. student Mike Lau, from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), recently predicted that gravitational waves of double neutron stars...
Watch live: President Donald Trump speaks on 2nd day of India visit
U.S. President Donald Trump will speak to news media Tuesday morning from India on his second day of his India visit.
InSight detects gravity waves, low rumbles and devilish dust
More than a year after NASA's Mars InSight lander touched down in a pebble-filled crater on the Martian equator, the rusty red planet is now serving up its meteorological secrets:...
Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101
Dr. Katherine Johnson died Monday morning at the age of 101. Johnson played an instrumental role in some of NASA’s most historic feats, including the Project Mercury space flights and...
Hunting for 'marsquakes,' NASA lander finds a surprisingly active red planet
NASA's Mars InSight lander has detected 174 marsquakes, a surprisingly strong local magnetic field and about 10,000 whirlwinds passing over Mars' surface.
The best telescopes for beginner astronomers of all ages
Gaze for days. (Depositphotos/)Since the dawn of time, man has gazed up into the heavens and wondered what those twinkly lights were in the night sky. The fact that we've progressed to...
InSight detects gravity waves, low rumbles and devilish dust
More than a year after NASA’s Mars InSight lander touched down in a pebble-filled crater on the Martian equator, the rusty red planet is now serving up its meteorological secrets:...
'Mad Mike' wasn't trying to prove 'flat Earth' theory on ill-fated homemade rocket launch
Following the tragic death of 'Mad' Mike Hughes, we revisit the real reasons why he launched himself into the air aboard his homemade steam rocket, knowing how risky the stunt...
NASA's InSight lander mission yields first scientific paper on Marsquakes
Researchers have published the first scientific papers that rely on data collected by NASA's InSight lander, which touched down on Mars just over a year ago.
NASA icon Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101
An inspirational “Hidden Figure” and a key player in sending the first humans to the moon, mathematician Katherine Johnson died February 24 at the age of 101. Born in West Virginia in...
NASA, New Zealand partner to collect climate data from commercial aircraft
NASA is partnering with the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand Space Agency, Air New Zealand and the University of Auckland to install next-generation Global Navigation...
A year of surprising science from NASA's InSight Mars mission
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers reveal a planet...
Future destroyer USS Delbert D. Black completes builder's trials
Builder's trials for the future USS Delbert D. Black were successfully completed after three days in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Navy announced on Monday.
A Year of Surprising Science From NASA's InSight Mars Mission
Portal origin URL: A Year of Surprising Science From NASA's InSight Mars MissionPortal origin nid: 458399Published: Monday, February 24, 2020 - 06:56Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A batch of new papers...