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NASA's Perseverance rover attached to Atlas V rocket
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been attached to the top of the rocket that will send it toward the Red Planet this summer. Encased in the nose cone that will...
Scientists propose plan to determine if Planet Nine is a primordial black hole
Scientists at Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) have developed a new method to find black holes in the outer solar system, and along with it, determine once-and-for-all...
Nasa Mars rover Perseverance is attached to rocket
The US space agency's next rover is placed atop of the rocket that will send it to the Red Planet.
Eyes on the stars: UAE's Mars probe a first for the Arab world
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates has built a nuclear power programme and sent a man to space, and now plans to join another elite club by sending a probe to...
'The Old Guard' star KiKi Layne: 'They threw it all at us'
"If Beale Street Could Talk" breakout star KiKi Layne joins Charlize Theron as an immortal mercenary in "The Old Guard," premiering Friday on Netflix.
A lopsided pair of dead stars could reveal some of the universe’s secrets
Two dead stars, one larger than the other, will one day collide—and tell us valuable things about the universe. (Courtesy of Arecibo Observatory/University of Central Florida - William Gonzalez and Andy Torres./)Picture a...
Scientists identify 'gel-like' substance Chinese rover found on the moon
Scientists have identified a 'gel-like' substance the Yutu-2 rover mission discovered on the far side of the moon a year ago.
Cosmic cataclysm allows precise test of general relativity
In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies. This was the most intense gamma-radiation ever obtained from such a cosmic object. But the...
Watch: New Jersey restaurant workers receive $1,000 tip
Workers at a New Jersey restaurant were brought to tears when a longtime customer left a $1,000 tip on a $43.18 bill.
The Euclid space telescope is coming together
ESA's Euclid mission has reached another milestone on its journey towards launch. Its two instruments are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus Defence and Space...
Colliding Neutron Stars May Unlock Mysteries of Universe Expansion
The National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has proven itself instrumental in another major astronomical discovery. An international team of scientists, led by the University of East Anglia...
Listen: Rolling Stones share 'Criss Cross' ahead of 'Goats Head Soup' reissue
The Rolling Stones released "Criss Cross," one of three unheard tracks that will appear on the reissue of their 1973 album "Goats Head Soup."
Image: New European rack delivered to ISS
After a successful launch aboard the Japanese HTV9 cargo vehicle, a new experiment facility was recently installed in the European laboratory Columbus as part of a comprehensive upgrade of Europe's...
Image: Proba-V passes the torch
ESA's cubic-metre-sized Proba-V minisatellite has ended its seven-year global mission to monitor the daily growth of all Earth's vegetation, a task being taken up by Copernicus Sentinel-3 instead, seen right.
New comet NEOWISE graces the skies
A comet visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system is putting on a spectacular nighttime display. The comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE made its once-in-a-lifetime close approach to...
Making the case for slingshotting past Venus on the way to Mars
A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, North Carolina State University and NASA, has proposed, via whitepaper, that NASA should direct its Mars-bound spacecraft to...
Supermassive binary black hole hunter: SKA pulsar timing array
Recently, researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences quantified the potential of gravitational wave detection in the era of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). The...
South Korea president pledges 'different path' in Japan trade row
South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed to walk a different path than neighboring Japan during a visit to local firm SK Hynix.
With coronavirus surging, bars and indoor dining could remain closed for the foreseeable future
With coronavirus surging, bars, indoor dining could remain closed for the foreseeable future
Column: Black and Latino borrowers may suffer most as Trump tosses out payday-loan rule
The rule, formulated under President Obama, would have required payday lenders to make sure borrowers could repay high-interest loans.
With coronavirus surging, bars and indoor dining could remain closed for the foreseeable future
With coronavirus surging, bars, indoor dining could remain closed for the foreseeable future
Satellites track unusual Saharan dust plume
Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Data from the Copernicus Sentinel...
Comet NEOWISE Could Be Spectacular: Here's How to See It
Already visible to the naked eye, the object may soon brighten to create the greatest celestial light show in decades—or it could simply fade away -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Euclid space telescope is coming together
ESA’s Euclid mission has reached another milestone on its journey towards launch. Its two instruments are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus Defence and Space...
Hubble just captured this ‘fluffy’ galaxy in all its flocculent glory
Situated 67 million light-years away, NGC 2275 has a feathered, fluffy appearance. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)/)The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a galaxy nestled...
The tech behind Virgin Orbit's mission to space
Marc Cieslak looks at how Virgin Orbit plans to launch its rockets from a plane.
Call for Media: ESA to reveal first images from Solar Orbiter
Press Release N° 13–2020 First images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter to be revealed:The first images from ESA’s new Sun-observing spacecraft Solar Orbiter will be released to the public on 16 July...
Los Angeles Clippers traveling to Orlando without star Kawhi Leonard
Superstar forward Kawhi Leonard didn't fly with the Los Angeles Clippers to Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday because of a family matter.