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Lucy mission one step closer to the Trojan asteroids
NASA's Lucy mission, led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), has achieved an important milestone by passing its System Integration Review and clearing the way for spacecraft assembly. This NASA Discovery...
Virgin Orbit determines cause of rocket launch failure
Virgin Orbit said Monday it has determined what caused the failure of its debut rocket launch and is working toward a second flight that will carry small satellites for NASA.
Danielle Brooks to play gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in Lifetime movie
"Orange is the New Black" alum Danielle Brooks will star in the biopic "Robin Roberts Presents: The Mahalia Jackson Story."
Unequal neutron-star mergers create unique 'bang' in simulations
When two neutron stars slam together, the result is sometimes a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence of the collision. However, in a series of simulations, an...
Astronomers find tiny, young galaxy with record-low oxygen levels
Astronomers have discovered a tiny, young, metal-poor galaxy with the lowest oxygen abundance ever recorded.
What's Up - Auguest 2020
What are some skywatching highlights in August 2020? See the Moon posing with various planets throughout the month, plus catch the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. News Article Type: Homepage...
Iron-rich meteorites show record of core crystallization in system's oldest planetesimals
New work led by Carnegie's Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System's oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites....
North Korea braces for heavy rains, possible flooding
North Korea is expected to receive about 20 inches of rain beginning Monday, the regime's weather agency says.
CryoSat taken to new heights for ice science
Ice plays a critical role in keeping Earth’s climate cool, but our rapidly warming world is taking its toll and ice is in general decline. For more than 10 years,...
Six things to know about NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter
When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Ingenuity may...
Searching for where very unequal mass black hole binaries come from
The direct detection of gravitational waves from at least eleven sources during the past five years has offered spectacular confirmation of Einstein's model of gravity and space-time, while the modeling of these events...
Virgin Galactic unveils designs for Mach 3 supersonic aircraft
Virgin Galactic, a space tourism offshoot of the business empire founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, unveiled designs for what could become the first commercial supersonic passenger jet in nearly...
Interstellar medium of SDSS J2310+1855 explored with ALMA
Using the ALMA Observatory, an international team of astronomers has conducted an observational campaign of interstellar medium (ISM) in a host galaxy of a high-redshift quasar known as SDSS J231038.88+185519.7...
Perseid meteor shower highlights list of events in August skies
The nights are gradually getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere while the warm summer weather holds strong, the perfect combination for enjoying some time under the stars in August.
Northern Irish political leader, Nobel Laureate John Hume dies at 83
John Hume, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and widely acknowledged as an architect of the Good Friday Agreement that helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, died Monday, his...
David Attenborough, Hans Zimmer team up for BBC's 'Planet Earth: A Celebration'
Famed naturalist David Attenborough and composer Hans Zimmer are teaming up for a new BBC program called "Planet Earth: A Celebration."
In photos: Astronauts make round trip to space station from U.S. soil
SpaceX's first mission with NASA astronauts on board launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT May 30, 2020, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.This was the first crewed launch from U.S. soil...
Avalanche's Nazem Kadri beats Blues at buzzer
Nazem Kadri slid the puck through the ice and into the net just before the final buzzer sounded to lift the Colorado Avalanche to a dramatic last-second win against the...
New York Jets cut starting right guard Brian Winters
The New York Jets have released starting right guard Brian Winters after seven seasons with the AFC East franchise.
Iran's mullahs are masters of media manipulation
News that the leader of the extreme left Podemos Party in Spain had received $9.3 million over a three-year period from the Iranian regime finally shone a light on what...
Hubble peeks at stellar treats
Looking its best ever is the star cluster NGC 2203, here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Aside from its dazzling good looks, this cluster of stars contains lots of...
Natural starshades would help astronomers image exoplanets
In the past few decades, the study of extrasolar planets has grown by leaps and bounds, with the confirmation of over 4000 exoplanets. With so many planets available for study,...
Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxy
New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low 1.6% oxygen abundance, breaking...
Differences between discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first time
A study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) comparing the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active and non-active, concludes that in the active...
Perseid meteor shower highlights list of events in August skies
The nights are gradually getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere while the warm summer weather holds strong, the perfect combination for enjoying some time under the stars in August.
Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxy
New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6%...
NASA astronauts safely splash down after first commercial crew flight to space station
Two NASA astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space...
NASA astronauts splash down safely in SpaceX capsule
Two NASA astronauts splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday afternoon, completing a two-month mission that sent them to the International Space Station to test SpaceX's groundbreaking Crew...