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SpaceX to Launch Beer Experiment, 'Mighty Mice' and More for NASA Today. How to Watch
SpaceX is about to launch beer, "mighty mice" and much, much more to the International Space Station.
SpaceX Aiming to Launch Crucial Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test This Month
SpaceX's Crew Dragon astronaut taxi will get off the ground again this month, if all goes according to plan.
Hoag's Object Is a Galaxy Within a Galaxy Within a Galaxy (and Nobody Knows Why)
Hoag's object, which is a galaxy within a galaxy within a galaxy, has befuddled stargazers since astronomer Arthur Hoag discovered it in 1950.
Image: A cloudy martian night through the eyes of a supercomputer
As NASA's Curiosity rover makes its way over the surface of Mars, it's sometimes accompanied by clouds drifting by in the sky above. Like Earth, the Red Planet has a...
Black Hole Factories May Hide at Cores of Giant Galaxies
Gravitational-wave astronomers are probing the origins of abnormally massive black holes—and with them, the inner workings of their colossal galactic homes -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Famous birthdays for Dec. 4: Jay-Z, Jeff Bridges
Rapper Jay-Z turns 50 and actor Jeff Bridges turns 70, among the famous birthdays for Dec. 4.
On This Day, Dec. 4: Italian jury convicts Amanda Knox of murder
On Dec. 4, 2009, an Italian jury found U.S. exchange student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, guilty of murdering her roommate.
SpaceX’s 19th cargo launch will carry high-tech toolbox for spacewalks
SpaceX plans to launch its 19th cargo mission to the International Space Station on Wednesday, carrying supplies, experiments and a new high-tech toolbox to keep robotic equipment ready for spacewalks.
NASA's exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive...
Detecting solar flares, more in real time
Computers can learn to find solar flares and other events in vast streams of solar images and help NOAA forecasters issue timely alerts, according to a new study. The machine-learning...
The 747's final approach
Kris Van Cleave looks back at the 747, Boeing's revolutionary jumbo jet which first went into service nearly 50 years ago, as it makes its last passenger flights in the...
The Great American Solar Eclipse
It's been referred to as "the Super Bowl of the sky" - the total solar eclipse on August 21 that will allow people across the continental United States to witness...
Southern Arizona once looked like Tibet
A new study determined that the Earth's crust in southern Arizona was once almost 60 kilometers thick, which is twice as thick as it is today -- and comparable to...
Detecting solar flares, more in real time
Computers can learn to find flares and other events in vast streams of solar images to help forecasters issue timely alerts, according to a new study. The machine-learning technique searches...
Massive 'Dust Towers' on Mars Look Like Supersized Versions of Earth's Thunderstorms
Massive dust towers on Mars that formed during global storms may be 'space elevators' that contributed to the loss of the planet's ancient water, according to NASA's description of new...
Boeing's 1st Starliner Spacecraft Test Launch Delayed to Dec. 19
Boeing has pushed back the launch debut of its Starliner spacecraft to Dec. 19, a two-day delay, due to a glitch with the spacecraft's Atlas V rocket.
Icelandic Space Documentary Retraces Forgotten Apollo Footsteps
"Cosmic Birth" explores Iceland's often-overlooked contributions to the Apollo program and unfolds into a love letter to the moon and Earth.
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may offer insights for Earth
Scientists studying the weather and climate of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have reported a significant seasonal variation in its energy budget, a finding which could yield new insights into climate...
Gas giant composition not determined by host star
A surprising analysis of the composition of gas giant exoplanets and their host stars shows that there isn't a strong correlation between their compositions when it comes to elements heavier...
NASA catches typhoon Kammuri post landfall
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP or S-NPP satellite provided infrared and night-time imagery of Typhoon Kammuri shortly after it made landfall in the Philippines.
Study shows Southern Arizona once looked like Tibet
A University of Wyoming researcher and his colleagues have shown that much of the southwestern United States was once a vast high-elevation plateau, similar to Tibet today.
Detecting solar flares, more in real time
Computers can learn to find solar flares and other events in vast streams of solar images and help NOAA forecasters issue timely alerts, according to a new study. The machine-learning...
Centre swage
Image: “Swage” was the word of the day on Monday as ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano carried out the third spacewalk to service the cosmic ray hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02. Here Luca is...
Dax Shepard, Rob Corddry to host 'Top Gear America' reboot
Dax Shepard, Rob Corddry and Jethro Bovingdon will host "Top Gear America" on Discovery's MotorTrend streaming service.
A study of Saturn's largest moon may offer insights for earth
Scientists studying the weather and climate of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have reported a significant seasonal variation in its energy budget—that is the amount of solar energy absorbed by the...
Gas giant composition not determined by host star
A surprising analysis of the composition of gas giant exoplanets and their host stars shows that there isn't a strong correlation between their compositions when it comes to elements heavier...
‘Pro-North Korea leftist’ queries among diplomats draw controversy in South
Japanese and U.S. diplomats in South Korea are coming under criticism for inquiring about President Moon Jae-in's political inclinations.
Watch: Michelle Mongahan investigates 'miracle man' in 'Messiah' trailer
Michelle Monaghan, Mehdi Dehbi and Tomer Sisley star in the Netflix spiritual thriller series "Messiah."