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MLS postpones second match in 'MLS is Back Tournament' due to COVID-19
Major League Soccer announced Tuesday that Nashville SC's match against the Chicago Fire in the "MLS is Back Tournament" has been postponed because of coronavirus concerns.
Coronavirus: What's happening around the world on Tuesday
The state of Texas surpassed 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day for the first time on Tuesday as record surges continue across the U.S.
Ontario woman wins two big lottery prizes in three weeks
An Ontario woman said she was shocked to discover she had won two big lottery prizes in a span of only three weeks with scratch-off tickets.
Building NASA's Psyche: design done, now full speed ahead on hardware
Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the...
NASA's InSight flexes its arm while its 'mole' hits pause
NASA's InSight lander has been using its robotic arm to help the heat probe known as the "mole" burrow into Mars. The mission is providing the first look at the...
Scuba diver, metal detector hobbyist find lost ring in Iowa lake
An Iowa man whose wedding ring plunged into the murky waters of a lake received some help from a pair of men with an underwater metal detector.
NASA adds software experts to work toward new Boeing capsule flight
NASA added software experts to work with Boeing and SpaceX on their space capsule programs following the failure of Boeing's Starliner test flight in December.
New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way
Astrophysicists announced the discovery of Nyx, a new collection of 250 stars that they believe are the remnant of a dwarf galaxy that merged with the Milky Way eons ago....
The cosmic commute towards star and planet formation
Interconnected gas flows reveal how star-forming gas is assembled in galaxies.
The collective power of the solar system's dark, icy bodies
Two new studies by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder may help to solve one of the biggest mysteries about the dark, icy bodies of the outer solar system:...
Watch: Hilary Swank plays astronaut in teaser for Netflix's 'Away'
"Away," a new space drama starring Hilary Swank, Josh Charles and Talitha Bateman, will premiere Sept. 4 on Netflix.
Curiosity Mars rover's summer road trip has begun
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has started a road trip that will continue through the summer across roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) of terrain. By trip's end, the rover will be...
Esa and Nasa line up satellites to measure Antarctic sea-ice
Aligning polar satellites will enable the first ever reliable maps of Antarctic sea-ice thickness.
The cosmic commute towards star and planet formation
The molecular gas in galaxies is organized into a hierarchy of structures. The molecular material in giant molecular gas clouds travels along intricate networks of filamentary gas lanes towards the...
New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way
Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky. But for Lina Necib, a postdoctoral scholar in theoretical physics at Caltech, the discovery of a...
Flight over Korolev Crater on Mars
Video: 00:02:40 This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, showcases the 82 km wide Korolev crater on Mars.Located in the northern lowlands of the Red Planet, south of the large Olympia Undae dune field that partly surrounds...
Earth from Space: Ari Atoll, Maldives
Video: 00:03:39 In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, we explore the Maldives with Copernicus Sentinel-2.See also Ari Atoll, Maldives to download the image.
The collective power of the solar system's dark, icy bodies
The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place—filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred...
Curiosity Mars Rover's Summer Road Trip Has Begun
Portal origin URL: Curiosity Mars Rover's Summer Road Trip Has BegunPortal origin nid: 462474Published: Monday, July 6, 2020 - 21:24Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: After more than a year in the...
The full moon may not be protected by Earth’s magnetic field after all
Everyone revels in the full moon, but there is far more going on there than meets the eye. Even at night, solar wind from the sun’s atmosphere throughout the solar...
Summer on Mars: NASA's Perseverance Rover Is One of Three Missions Ready to Launch
A new generation of orbiters, landers and rovers will study the Red Planet as never before, setting the stage for returning pristine samples to Earth -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Should architecturally significant low-income housing be preserved?
This past January, in Buffalo, New York, the second phase of demolition for a low-income housing complex called Shoreline Apartments commenced.
Dying Stars Breathe Life Into Earth
As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae. These ashes, spread via stellar winds, are...
5000 eyes on the skies: Scientists choreograph robots to observe distant galaxies
Since 2005, scientists have been scanning the night sky to create a three-dimensional map of our universe with the purpose of shedding light on one of the biggest mysteries in...
Emission from the blazar 1ES 1218+304 explored with NASA space telescopes
Using three NASA space observatories, astronomers have conducted a multiwavelength study of emission from a blazar known as 1ES 1218+304. Results of the investigation, presented in a paper published June...
Watch: Tracee Ellis Ross says mom, Diana Ross, is tech-savvy
Tracee Ellis Ross discussed how her mother Diana Ross is tech-savvy while appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," which was hosted by her "Black-ish" co-star Anthony Anderson.
There and Back Again: Perseverance Will Begin a New Chapter in Mars Exploration
Of the three missions launching to the Red Planet this summer, NASA’s latest rover offers the best hope yet of bringing evidence of Martian life down to Earth -- Read more...
Mysterious spinning neutron star detected in the Milky Way proves to be an extremely rare discovery
On March 12th 2020 a space telescope called Swift detected a burst of radiation from halfway across the Milky Way. Within a week, the newly discovered X-ray source, named Swift...