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Wolf moon: Full moon and lunar eclipse delight skywatchers
The first full moon of 2020 coincides with a penumbral lunar eclipse, caused by the Earth's shadow.
Watch: 'The Ranch' stars brace for change in final season
Ashton Kutcher, Sam Elliott and Elisha Cuthbert star in the eighth and final season of the Netflix series "The Ranch."
Mars loses water to space during warm, stormy seasons
New research, published this week in the journal Science, suggests Mars' seasonality may have dictated the rate at which water vapor was able to escape from the atmosphere and into...
Jillian Bell, Isla Fisher to star in Disney+ movie 'Godmothered'
"Workaholics" alum Jillian Bell will play Isla Fisher's fairy godmother in the Disney+ comedy "Godmothered."
NASA's latest astronaut graduates almost half women
NASA on Friday honored its latest class of graduating astronauts in a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions...
NASA Graduates New Class of Astronauts to Join Artemis-Era Missions
NASA's new astronauts are ready to come out of their shells and walk on the moon.
'Elite' Season 3 to premiere on Netflix in March
"Elite," starring Itzan Escamilla, Miguel Bernardeau, Danna Paola and Ester Expósito, will return on Netflix in March.
Watch: 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' stars return in '80s-style Season 7 trailer
Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews, Melissa Fumero, Joe Lo Truglio and Andre Braugher star in the NBC series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
NASA, NOAA to Announce 2019 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions
Portal origin URL: NASA, NOAA to Announce 2019 Global Temperatures, Climate ConditionsPortal origin nid: 457249Published: Friday, January 10, 2020 - 11:19Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Climate experts from NASA and the...
Experiment on beta-decay sheds light on fate of intermediate-mass stars
A group of scientists succeeded to experimentally determine characteristics of nuclear processes in matter ten million times denser and 25 times hotter than the center of our sun. A result...
A stripped helium star solves the massive black hole mystery
Recently, a Chinese team of astronomers claimed to have discovered a black hole as massive as 70 solar masses, which, if confirmed, would severely challenge the current view of stellar...
Aeolus winds now in daily weather forecasts
ESA’s Aeolus satellite has been returning profiles of Earth’s winds since 3 September 2018, just after it was launched – and after months of careful testing these measurements are considered...
Watch: This year's wolf moon to feature a lunar eclipse
Friday's wolf moon, the Native American-inspired name for the first full moon of the year, will feature a penumbral lunar eclipse.
First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy cluster
ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster—a never-before-seen behaviour that may be driven by turbulent merger events.
Stellar black holes: When David poses as Goliath
Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of...
Newest Canadian astronauts graduate, ready to fly to the moon
Canada’s two newest astronauts, Jenni Sidey-Gibbons and Joshua Kutryk, graduate today from NASA’s astronaut basic training, making them officially eligible for space flight — and to possibly become the first Canadians...
Satellite test shows objects in space fall at a rate to within two-trillionths of a percent of each other
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in France and one in the U.S. has found that objects of different mass dropped in space fall at a rate within...
Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
Portal origin URL: Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter ClumpsPortal origin nid: 457138Published: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 15:15Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously...
On the hunt for primordial black holes
The theory that dark matter could be made of primordial black holes a fraction of a millimeter in size has been ruled out by a team of researchers led by...
Study probes the origin of the very high energy gamma-ray source VER J1907+062
A new study based on high-quality radio observations with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) has investigated the origin of a very high-energy gamma-ray source known as VER...
NASA's Lucy mission confirms discovery of Eurybates satellite
NASA's Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This "bonus" science exploration opportunity...
Landsat 9: The pieces come together
Landsat 9's two science instruments are now attached to the spacecraft, bringing the mission one step closer to launch. In late December, the Operational Land Imager 2 (OLI-2) and the...
The Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse of 2020 Occurs Today: How to Watch Online
The first full moon of the year rises today (Jan. 10) bringing with it the first lunar eclipse of 2020 and you can watch the event live online.
Inter Miami takes Clemson's Robbie Robinson at No. 1 in MLS SuperDraft
David Beckham's new club Inter Miami CF has selected Clemson star Robbie Robinson with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 Major League Soccer SuperDraft.
Dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin gets a new observatory named after her
A trailblazer into the dark heart of the universe is getting her due. A major new effort to study the cosmos is now named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who discovered telltale evidence...
First sighting of hot gas sloshing in galaxy cluster
ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has spied hot gas sloshing around within a galaxy cluster – a never-before-seen behaviour that may be driven by turbulent merger events.
Simulation of dwarf galaxy reveals different routes for strontium enrichment
Simulations of a dwarf galaxy by RIKEN astrophysicists have revealed the various processes by which moderately heavy metals such as strontium are birthed. They have found that at least four...
Why SpaceX's Starlink Satellites Caught Astronomers Off Guard
Astronomers have had five years to brace for the impact of SpaceX's Starlink internet-satellite megaconstellation, but the first few batches of the spacecraft still managed to catch the community off...