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Telescopes photograph a black hole for the first time
The first image of a black hole has been released by scientists. Telescopes captured the image from 55 million light-years away. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood joins CBSN to...
Scientists reveal first picture of a black hole
Scientists on Wednesday showed off the first picture of a black hole. Its gravity is so powerful, nothing escapes, not even light. Mark Strassmann explains.
Black hole image reveals cosmic first: "Our jaws dropped"
For the first time, we are seeing an image of one of the most mysterious corners of the universe: a black hole with 6.5 billion times the mass of our...
"Marfa Martians" sending science experiment to space
A group of 10 and 11-year-old students from Marfa, Texas, decided to reach for the stars and enter a nationwide science contest. Now the "Marfa Martians," as they're known, will...
Universe is younger and expanding faster than previously thought
CBS News contributor and physicist Michio Kaku joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano to discuss a new study that says the universe is younger and expanding faster than previously thought.
Astronomers investigate pulsar wind nebula DA 495
Astronomers have carried out a multiwavelength investigation of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN), designated DA 495, to unveil its mysterious physical nature. Results of the study, based on observations using...
Direct measurement of the cosmic-ray proton spectrum with the CALET on the ISS
Recent advances in the observation of high-energy radiations, including X-rays and gamma-rays, have unveiled many high-energy aspects of the universe. To achieve a complete understanding of these radiations, however, researchers...
Scientists throw new light on photosynthetic supercomplex structure
A team of scientists from Arizona State University has taken a significant step closer to unlocking the secrets of photosynthesis, by determining the structure of a very large photosynthetic supercomplex.
Beyond news conference
Watch a replay of the news conference with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano ahead of his Beyond mission to the International Space Station.
Seeking innovative ideas: space for the oceans
ESA seeks your ideas for applying space technology to Earth-based problems. Through the Open Space Innovation Platform, a new challenge-based website, the Agency is hunting out bright ideas to monitor...
Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back
Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the first time: Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped...
Scientists get to the bottom of a ‘spitting’ black hole
Data from ESA’s Integral high-energy observatory have helped shed light on the workings of a mysterious black hole found spitting out ‘bullets’ of plasma while rotating through space.
Hera’s CubeSat to perform first radar probe of an asteroid
Small enough to be an aircraft carry-on, the Juventas spacecraft nevertheless has big mission goals. Once in orbit around its target body, Juventas will unfurl an antenna larger than itself,...
Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps
While ESA’s Gaia mission has been surveying more than one billion stars from space, astronomers have been regularly monitoring the satellite’s position in the sky with telescopes across the world,...
Hera’s APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids are made of
From Earth asteroids appear as little more than dots in the sky. Europe’s miniature APEX spacecraft will operate as a mineral prospector in deep space, surveying the make-up of its...
Recognising sustainable behaviour
Solving the growing problem of space debris will require everyone who flies rockets and satellites to adhere to sustainable practices, which doesn’t always happen. Now there will be a way...
Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks may push super-Earths close to their stars
Astronomers found that as planets form out of the chaotic churn of gravitational, hydrodynamic -- or, drag -- and magnetic forces and collisions within the dusty, gaseous protoplanetary disk that...
New method developed to detect and trace homemade bombs
Researchers have developed a new way of detecting homemade explosives which will help forensic scientists trace where it came from.
Did a Meteor from Another Star Strike Earth in 2014?
Questionable data cloud the potential discovery of the first known interstellar fireball -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
NASA to Seek Iron-Spewing Volcanoes at Psyche
New research suggests the large metallic asteroid may harbor signs of past “ferrovolcanism” that could help rewrite early chapters of the solar system’s history -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Venezuela Is Unraveling—So Is Its Science
Research has ground to a halt, and many scientists have left the country out of desperation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Watching Apollo 11 with NASA Historian Bill Barry
The agency’s chief historian discusses the film and what the moon missions can teach us about global challenges today -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
An Exomoon Eludes Astronomers—for Now
Researchers may have already glimpsed the first-known exomoon—a satellite of a planet orbiting another star; but confirmation of that potential discovery could be many years away -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Hyperactive Comets Hint at Origins of Earth's Oceans
A new study suggests primordial seawater may lurk hidden at the hearts of many comets -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Fox cancels 'Star,' 'Lethal Weapon,' 'Cool Kids'
Fox has canceled its music drama "Star" and its buddy cop show "Lethal Weapon."
Rays swing trade for catcher Travis d'Arnaud
The Tampa Bay Rays have acquired veteran catcher Travis d'Arnaud from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for cash considerations.
Kristin Scott Thomas to star in Netflix's 'Rebecca' remake
Kristin Scott Thomas has signed on to star in the Netflix film, "Rebecca. "
Explosions of universe’s first stars spewed powerful jets
Several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the very first stars flared into the universe as massively bright accumulations of hydrogen and helium gas. Within the cores of these first stars, extreme,...