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Watch: 'Teenage Bounty Hunters' take on criminals in new Netflix series
"Teenage Bounty Hunters," starring Maddie Phillips and Anjelica Bette Fellini, will premiere Aug. 14 on Netflix.
Mars orbiter spots return of long, thin cloud on Red Planet
With the help of the Mars Express orbiter and its Visual Monitoring Camera, astronomers at the European Space Agency have spotted the return of a mysterious cloud on the Red...
Watch: Garcelle Beauvais on unfollowing Lisa Rinna after 'RHOBH' reunion
Garcelle Beauvais discussed Lisa Rinna and Denise Richards after filming the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" Season 10 reunion.
Report: North Korea tested anti-ship cruise missile in July
North Korea tested an anti-ship cruise missile earlier in July but the South Korean military says it was part of "regular training."
NASA's most advanced rover heads to Mars
NASA launched the most advanced Mars rover yet -- with technology and tools to find signs of life on the Red Planet -- on Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air...
Stanley Tucci to star in Spanish thriller 'La Fortuna' for AMC
Production began this week in Spain on "La Fortuna," a limited series starring Hollywood actor Stanley Tucci and Spanish actors Álvaro Mel and Ana Polvorosa.
A European dream team for Mars
European scientists will help select rocks and soil from Mars in the search for life on our planetary neighbour.
For hundreds of years, the mysteries of Mars have fascinated humans
Mars seems so far away, even though it's been close to people for so long.
Why it's time for scientists to become cinematic superheroes
Directed by Marjane Satrapi, "Radioactive" stars Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie, still the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice. The biopic also valorizes the role of science in...
Outburst of the X-ray transient MAXI J1727–203 investigated with NICER
Using the NICER instrument, astronomers have conducted a detailed X-ray spectral and variability study of an outburst from an X-ray transient source known as MAXI J1727-203. Results of this investigation...
NASA launches Mars rover to look for signs of ancient life
The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built—a car-size vehicle bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers—blasted off for the red planet Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project...
Desert Fireball Network scientists find two meteorites in two weeks
Curtin University researchers have discovered two meteorites in a two week period on the Nullarbor Plain—one freshly fallen and the other from November 2019.
Watch live: NASA's most advanced rover heads to Mars
NASA launched the most advanced Mars rover yet -- with technology and tools to find signs of life on the Red Planet -- on Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air...
The Perseverance rover caps off a month of Mars launches
NASA’s Perseverance rover took off at 7:50 a.m. EDT on July 30 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and is now on its way to Mars with a suite of instruments designed to search...
Sticking the landing on Mars: High-powered computing aims to reduce guesswork
Future spacecrafts bound for the moon or beyond will benefit from high-powered computer simulations underway at the University of Michigan that model the particulate mayhem set in motion by rocket...
Return of the extremely elongated cloud on Mars
A mysteriously long, thin cloud has again appeared over the 20-km-high Arsia Mons volcano on Mars.
Bladder intake of microplastics induces toxicity in utricularia aurea lour
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Researchers conduct first simultaneous imaging and spectral study on a solar fan-spine
Fan-spine magnetic topology is favorable for the occurrence of solar flares through null-point reconnection.
NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance launches this morning
NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance is set for liftoff from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Thursday on a mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth's planetary neighbour.
Watch live: NASA's most advanced Mars rover ready for launch
The most advanced U.S. Mars rover ever built -- with technology and tools to find signs of life on the Red Planet -- is ready to be launched Thursday morning...
Mars-bound: NASA's life-seeking rover Perseverance set for launch
NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launches Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life—and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time.
NASA's most advanced Mars rover ready for launch
The most advanced U.S. Mars rover ever built -- with technology and tools to find signs of life on the Red Planet -- is ready to be launched Thursday morning...
Famous birthdays for July 30: Christopher Nolan, Richard Linklater
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan turns 50 and filmmaker Richard Linklater turns 60, among the famous birthdays for July 30.
Phillips group exactly solves experimental puzzle in high temperature superconductivity
A team of theoretical physicists has for the first time exactly solved a representative model of the cuprate problem, the 1992 Hatsugai-Kohmoto (HK) model of a doped Mott insulator.
Cosmic tango between the very small and the very large
A new study using the theory of quantum loop cosmology accounts for two major mysteries about the large-scale structure of our universe.
Nasa Mars 2020: First aircraft to fly on another planet
Ingenuity is a 1.8kg (4lb) helicopter that will ride to Mars attached to the belly of Nasa's Perseverance.
'Girlfriends,' 'Moesha' and five more Black sitcoms coming to Netflix
Netflix announced Wednesday that seven classic Black sitcoms would come to its streaming platform between August and October.
2020's final Mars mission poised for blastoff from Florida
The summer's third and final mission to Mars—featuring NASA's most elaborate life-hunting rover—is on the verge of liftoff.