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Jeff Bezos says he'll send a spaceship to the moon
Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos said Thursday he's going to send a spaceship to the moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there.
The Shapes of Water
New research published in Science (March 9), C. Austen Angell of Arizona State University and colleagues from the University of Amsterdam have observed one of the more intriguing properties predicted...
NASA's Webb Telescope to Make a Splash in Search for Interstellar Water
Most of the water in the universe floats in vast reservoirs called molecular clouds. It coats the surface of dust grains, turning them into cosmic snowflakes. When stars and planets...
Glow discharge source brings high resolving power to elemental mass spectrometry
Combination of microplasma ionization source and Orbitrap mass analyzer yields resolving powers in excess of 1 million
Vladimir Ipatieff is the catalysis superhero you've never heard of
Russian-born scientist revolutionized chemistry by helping launch heterogeneous catalysis more than a century ago. Today, hardly anyone knows his name
LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves
Gravitational wave hunters are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Here’s what they’re hoping to find.
What a nearby kilonova would look like
Physicists imagined what we’d see in the sky if two neutron stars collided just 1,000 light-years from Earth.
Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold
Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver.
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.
Luxembourg and US agree to deepen cooperation in space
The tiny EU country of Luxembourg and the United States agreed on Friday to work more closely on projects in space, including research and exploration as well as defence and...
Lab builds autopilot software allowing UAVs to soar on thermals
A Navy scientist has re-engineered the software that allows long-endurance drones to powerlessly climb into the sky on bubbles of warm air.
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.
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.
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
Angels' Mike Trout hits home run for young fan
Angels star outfielder Mike Trout dedicated his home run Friday night to a 7-year-old fan watching in the stands.
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,...