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Ryan Murphy's 'Hollywood' to premiere May 1 on Netflix
"Hollywood," starring Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Jeremy Pope and Patti LuPone, is coming to Netflix in May.
Fortnite flashback: Just how accurate was the black hole that launched Chapter 2?
The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first picture of a black hole. How did Fortnite's black hole compare?
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars...
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder
A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and...
'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars' Season 5 to air on Showtime
"RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" will move from VH1 to Showtime for Season 5, which premieres June 5.
The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of approximately five million years, shows a new study from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan) at the Globe...
18-hour year planet on edge of destruction
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type....
18-hour year planet on edge of destruction
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type.
Eighteen-hour-year planet on edge of destruction
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type.
The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of approximately five million years, shows a new study from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan)...
Journey to the center of Mars
While InSight's seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, have built a new compositional model for...
XMM-Newton reveals giant flare from a tiny star
A star of about eight percent the Sun’s mass has been caught emitting an enormous ‘super flare’ of X-rays – a dramatic high-energy eruption that poses a fundamental problem for...
Computers scour satellite imagery to unveil Madagascar's mysteries
Scientists may be a step closer to solving some of anthropology's biggest mysteries thanks to a machine learning algorithm that can scour through remote sensing data, such as satellite imagery,...
How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars...
Watch: Nintendo details 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' gameplay in new Direct
Nintendo detailed on Thursday all of the features and customization options that will be present in "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" during a Direct presentation.
Stargazing with computers: What machine learning can teach us about the cosmos
Gazing up at the night sky in a rural area, you'll probably see the shining moon surrounded by stars. If you're lucky, you might spot the furthest thing visible with...
The New Horizons spacecraft just revealed secrets of the most distant object we’ve ever visited
Arrokoth’s fragile construction hints at a tranquil formation. ( NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko/)Even as the New Horizons team celebrated their spacecraft’s historic flyby of Pluto in the summer of...
Journey to the center of Mars: A new compositional model for the red planet
While InSight's seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki (Tohoku University) and Bill McDonough...
One small step: Getting started with astronomy
Keen to get into astronomy or stargazing, but no idea how to start? Don't worry—it's easier than you think.
WWE NXT: Velveteen Dream takes on Roderick Strong
Velveteen Dream and Roderick Strong of The Undisputed Era had a grudge match in the main event of WWE NXT.
Forum explores challenges in travel to North Korea
Experts, civic groups and others gathered in Seoul to discuss allowing individual tourists to travel to North Korea, an idea proposed in January by President Moon Jae-in.
Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life
While the cold, dry, radiation-blasted surface of Mars is widely considered to be uninhabitable, the subsurface may be a very different story.
LightSail 2 captures stunning photos of Earth from space
The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft has beamed back stunning new images of Earth.
What's up with that rock? China's moon rover finds something strange on the far side.
China's Yutu-2 lunar rover has discovered what appear to be relatively young rocks during its recent exploration activities on the lunar far side.
Netflix: What's coming and going in March 2020
"Spenser Confidential," featuring Mark Wahlberg, "Self Made" starring Octavia Spencer, and new seasons of "Ozark," "Elite" and "Kingdom" are headed to Netflix.
New Horizons May Have Solved Planet Formation Cold Case
An encounter with Arrokoth at the outskirts of the solar system offers the best evidence yet for how worlds coalesce from dust -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Egypt constructing concrete wall along border with Gaza Strip
Security and military forces in Egypt have begun constructing a concrete wall on the border with the Gaza Strip.
Russia replaces two cosmonauts on next space station crew, citing medical reasons
Two Russian cosmonauts have been removed from the next scheduled launch to the International Space Station "for medical reasons," according to the Russian space agency. Roscosmos said Nikolai Tikhonov and...