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Look: Irene, Seulgi dance to 'Naughty' in Red Velvet's first TikTok videos
K-pop stars Irene and Seulgi kicked off the #NaughtyChallenge, a dance challenge featuring their song "Naughty," in Red Velvet's first TikTok videos.
What's open and closed this weekend: Southern California beaches, parks, trails
As indoor option dwindle, outdoor spaces get attention in L.A. and beyond
To photograph comet Neowise, it takes patience and placement
The newly discovered comet Neowise is only visible from Earth once every 6,800 years, and photographers who want to document it seek places with high elevation and little smog or...
As if space wasn't dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity
China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover...
John Blake, first Black coach in Oklahoma history, dies at 59
John Blake, the first Black coach in University of Oklahoma history in any sport, has died. He was 59.
Watch: Andrew Scott joins 'His Dark Materials' in Season 2 first-look trailer
"His Dark Materials," featuring "Fleabag" actor Andrew Scott as John Parry and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as his daemon, will return for a second season on HBO.
Image: Hubble snaps ghostly galaxy
A notable feature of most spiral galaxies is the multitude of arching spiral arms that seemingly spin out from the galaxy's center. In this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the...
Dust seen streaming out of Namibia into the Atlantic Ocean
Landsat 8 is the United States Geological Survey's most recently launched satellite, and it holds the powerful Operational Land Imager (OLI.) The OLI is a powerful multi-spectral imager with a...
Dodgers' Betts kneels for anthem after 2016 vow to 'always stand'
Mookie Betts was one of several Major League Baseball stars to take a knee during the national anthem before the first two games of the season, after the Los Angeles...
Watch: Bindi Irwin sends 'love and light' to fans on 22nd birthday
Bindi Irwin paid tribute to her parents, Terri and Steve Irwin, and thanked fans for their support on her birthday.
NASA Juno takes first images of jovian moon Ganymede's north pole
On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew in the proximity of the north pole of the ninth-largest object in the solar...
NASA mission will study the cosmos with a stratospheric balloon
Work has begun on an ambitious new mission that will carry a cutting-edge 8.4-foot (2.5-meter) telescope high into the stratosphere on a balloon. Tentatively planned to launch in December 2023...
It's time for the American left to reclaim patriotism
The void left by the passing of Rep. John Lewis is all the more profound because he was a shining example of how one can be both a protester and...
Disney delays 'Star Wars' and 'Avatar' films by one year
Disney has delayed a number of untitled "Star Wars" films and the planned "Avatar" sequels by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watch: Sean Hayes officiates a quarantine wedding on 'Kimmel'
Sean Hayes surprised a nurse from Santa Maria, Calif., with a quarantine wedding while guest hosting "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
The star cluster closest to Earth is in its death throes
The closest cluster of stars to Earth is falling apart and will soon die, astronomers say. Using the Gaia spacecraft to measure velocities of stars in the Hyades cluster and those escaping...
Iran says U.S. warplanes harassed commercial flight over Syria
Iran says a pair of U.S. warplanes harassed an Iranian airliner after it left Tehran late Thursday bound for Lebanon.
From Earth to Mars: Rosalind Franklin’s centenary of science
If Rosalind Franklin had had a birthday wish, she probably never would have dreamed of having her name roving on Mars.
Bright lights at Canadian synchrotron working to illuminate COVID-19's scientific mysteries
Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan are creating a light millions of times brighter than the sun to illuminate the answers to scientific mysteries hidden inside COVID-19.
Scientists Unveil First Ever Pictures of Multiple Planets around a Sunlike Star
The two giant worlds, each much larger than Jupiter, constitute only the third multiplanet system ever imaged -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Earth from Space: Falkland Islands
Video: 00:02:50 This week's edition of the Earth from Space programme features a radar image of the Falkland Islands, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.See also Falkland Islands to download the image.
Sam Riley took science lessons to play Pierre Curie in 'Radioactive'
Playing Nobel Prize winning physicist Pierre Curie in the movie "Radioactive" required an education for actor Sam Riley. Riley speaks with UPI about his preparation for the role.
UPI News Quiz: NBA bubble, COVID-19 vaccine race, mission to Mars
The NBA bubble, a race for a COVID-19 vaccine, the next mission to Mars -- how well did you follow the headlines this week? Take the UPI News Quiz for...
Nasa Mars rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past life
If there was life on Mars, how will the US space agency's next robot rover recognise it?
Spectacular ultraviolet flash may finally explain how white dwarfs explode
For just the second time ever, astrophysicists have spotted a spectacular flash of ultraviolet (UV) light accompanying a white dwarf explosion. An extremely rare type of supernova, the event is...
UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space
The UK says the Russian satellite launched "a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon".
Hubble sees summertime on Saturn
Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million...
Geologists say Venus has enough active volcanoes to form a ‘Ring of Fire’
A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. (NASA/JPL/)In many ways—size, density, chemical make-up—Venus is Earth’s fiery twin. Sure, this radiation-bombarded, sulfuric-acid-raining, blistering hellscape of a planet is...