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UPI News Quiz: Liftoff to Mars, COVID-19 baseball, stormy weather
A new Mars mission lifts off, baseball players go into quarantine, a storm threatens in the tropics -- how well did you watch the headlines this week? Take the UPI...
Famous birthdays for July 31: Wesley Snipes, Rico Rodriguez
Actor Wesley Snipes turns 58 and actor Rico Rodriguez turns 22, among the famous birthdays for July 31.
Vinnie Jones: Making 'The Big Ugly' was 'a Cinderella story'
Vinnie Jones, Malcolm McDowell and Leven Rambin discuss making "The Big Ugly," which Jones produced and is on VOD Friday.
NASA's Perseverance rover bound for Mars to seek ancient life
NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launched Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet—and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world...
Nobel prize-winning work is concentrated in minority of scientific fields
From 1995 to 2017, work that was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine, Physics, or Chemistry clustered in just a few scientific disciplines.
NASA to Broadcast Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch, Prelaunch Activities
Starting July 27, news activities will cover everything from mission engineering and science to returning samples from Mars to, of course, the launch itself.
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Passes Flight Readiness Review
The agency's Mars 2020 mission has one more big prelaunch review - the Launch Readiness Review, on July 27.
NASA Juno Takes First Images of Jovian Moon Ganymede's North Pole
Infrared images from Juno provide the first glimpse of Ganymede's icy north pole.
NASA Mission Will Study the Cosmos With a Stratospheric Balloon
Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a cutting-edge telescope to observe wavelengths of light that aren't visible from the ground.
NASA Invites Public to Share Excitement of Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Launch
A Mars photo booth, augmented-reality filters, and a virtual launch packet are just some of the ways to celebrate the July 30 launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission.
New NASA Research Projects Probe COVID-19 Impacts
The new projects look at food- and water-supply stability and how changes in human activity are affecting the environment.
A New Video Captures the Science of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
With a targeted launch date of July 30, the next robotic scientist NASA is sending to the to the Red Planet has big ambitions.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Carry First Spacesuit Materials to Mars
In a Q&A, spacesuit designer Amy Ross explains how five samples, including a piece of helmet visor, will be tested aboard the rover, which is targeting a July 30 launch.
NASA, ULA Launch Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet
The agency's Mars 2020 mission is on its way. It will land at Jezero Crater in about seven months, on Feb. 18, 2021.
'Clueless' at 25: Watch director Amy Heckerling dish on the Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown
Watch the "Clueless" live chat with director Amy Heckerling for week 12 of the Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown.
Mars-bound spaceship experiencing technical issues: NASA
Mars 2020, the spaceship carrying NASA's new rover Perseverance to the Red Planet, is experiencing technical difficulties and is running on essential systems only, the agency said Thursday.
Poem: Biology Is Note Physics (Redux)
Due to an editing error, the first stanza in this poem was left off the original post. We are reprinting the poem in its entirety for readers’ pleasure. We sincerely apologize...
NASA, ULA Launch Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth. Humanity’s...
Cosmic tango between the very small and the very large
While Einstein’s theory of general relativity can explain a large array of fascinating astrophysical and cosmological phenomena, some aspects of the properties of the universe at the largest-scales remain a...
Look: Irene & Seulgi tease video for 'Naughty' Demicat remix
K-pop stars Irene & Seulgi will release a music video for their "Naughty" Demicat remix on Friday.
The physics of solar flares could help scientists predict imminent outbursts
Space weather forecasting is a guessing game. Predictions of outbursts from the sun are typically based on the amount of activity observed on the sun’s roiling surface, without accounting for the specific processes...
NASA, ULA Launch Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet
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A physics-based method that can predict imminent large solar flares
Solar flares are highly energetic events in the Sun’s corona that affect Earth’s space weather. The mechanism that drives the onset of solar flares is unknown, hampering efforts to forecast...
Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet successfully launched
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth.
Mars2020 Launches Successfully
Perseverance has successfully launched and 'calls home," now it has quite the trip ahead. It will reach Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, touching down on the surface of Jezero Crater. The...
ALMA finds possible sign of neutron star in supernova 1987A
Two teams of astronomers have made a compelling case in the 33-year-old mystery surrounding Supernova 1987A. Based on observations of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and a theoretical follow-up...
Stunning space butterfly captured by telescope
Resembling a butterfly with its symmetrical structure, beautiful colors, and intricate patterns, this striking bubble of gas—known as NGC 2899—appears to float and flutter across the sky in this new...
NASA finds Post-Tropical Low Douglas crossing a line
The strong wind shear that weakened Douglas to a tropical storm early on July 29 has further weakened it to a post-tropical low-pressure area. NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared...