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Boeing to make safety feature standard on troubled Max jets
Boeing will make standard on its troubled new airliner a safety feature that might have helped the crew of a jet that crashed shortly after takeoff last year in Indonesia,...
Vega Rocket Launches Earth-Watching PRISMA Satellite for Italy
A European Vega rocket launched the Italian Earth-observation satellite PRISMA into orbit late Thursday (March 21).
Arcturus: Facts About the Bright Red Giant Star
Arcturus is a red giant that is one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky.
Suns ink former March Madness star Jimmer Fredette
The Phoenix Suns have signed former BYU guard and March Madness star Jimmer Fredette.
Ultra-sharp images make old stars look absolutely marvelous
Using high-resolution adaptive optics imaging from the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have uncovered one of the oldest star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. The remarkably sharp image looks back into...
Galactic center visualization delivers star power
Want to take a trip to the center of the Milky Way? Check out a new immersive, ultra-high-definition visualization. This 360-movie offers an unparalleled opportunity to look around the center...
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Trevor move into Gulf of Carpentaria
Tropical Cyclone Trevor has crossed Queensland, Australia's Cape York Peninsula and re-emerged into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite confirmed the movement back over water.
True-meaning wearable displays: Self-powered, washable and wearable
When we think about clothes, they are usually formed with textiles and have to be both wearable and washable for daily use; however, smart clothing has had a problem with...
Rays reward Cy Young winner Blake Snell with $50M extension
The Tampa Bay Rays have agreed to a five-year contract extension with 2018 American League Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell.
Watch a Vega Rocket Launch an Italian Earth-Observing Satellite!
Italy's PRISMA Earth-observation satellite will take to the skies tonight (March 21), and you can watch the action live.
Fermi satellite clocks pulsar going 2.5 million miles per hour
Astronomers have discovered a pulsar traveling at unprecedented speeds.
Meet 'Kazachok': Landing Platform for ExoMars Rover Gets a Name
The Russian-built landing platform for the ExoMars rover now has a name: 'Kazachok.'
DARPA taps BAE for autonomous air mission planning software
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a new contract for its work on an autonomous air mission planning system for the U.S. military.
NASA's JPL Seeking Applicants for First Space Accelerator
The experimental program will develop technologies with startup companies for future space missions.
Catch NASA's JPL at the Clippers SciFest This Weekend
Explore the galaxy with NASA's JPL this weekend at a free STEM festival for Los Angeles students and families.
'Inland Oceans' from One of Southern Hemisphere's Worst Storms Seen from Space
One of the worst cyclones to hit southern Africa left flooding that could be seen from space.
Huge Meteor Explosion a Wake-Up Call for Planetary Defense
Detonating over the Bering Sea, the blast was as powerful as a nuclear bomb -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Two big lottery jackpots won at same gas station within weeks
A gas station is being dubbed "the luckiest spot in Michigan" after selling two winning lottery tickets worth $4 million and $500,000 in less than a month.
Watch: David Letterman says he should have left 'Late Show' 10 years earlier on 'Ellen'
David Letterman said on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Thursday that he should have left the "Late Show" 10 years earlier.
Chemically, Earth Is Basically a Less Volatile Version of the Sun
The elemental composition of Earth and sun are unexpectedly similar.
Watch: Reported fireball over downtown Los Angeles was wingsuit flyers
A seeming fireball in the sky over Los Angeles sparked reports of a possible meteor, but turned out to be a Red Bull wingsuit stunt.
Testing the value of artificial gravity for astronaut health
Test subjects in Cologne, Germany will take to their beds for 60 days from 25 March as part of a groundbreaking study, funded by European Space Agency ESA and US...
Land-cover dynamics unveiled
Billions of image pixels recorded by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission have been used to generate a high-resolution map of land-cover dynamics across Earth's landmasses. This map also depicts the month...
NASA May Send a Smallsat Mission to the Giant Asteroid Pallas
NASA is considering funding a mission that would send a satellite the size of a mini-fridge to the asteroid belt to examine an unexplored world: a massive asteroid scientists call...
Video: Heroines of the periodic table
In 1871, Dimitri Mendeleev presented his periodic table to the world. Many of the current 118 elements were missing, and he left placeholders for those yet to be discovered. Each...
Water for life
UN SDG6 targets ‘Water for all by 2030’. For World Water Day we take a look at ways that space can help this global challenge.
Michigan could enter the satellite launch business by 2022
Michigan was a major force in the early Space Age, when Chrysler made rockets that carried astronauts and General Motors built the electric buggies they used to explore the moon.
Testing the value of artificial gravity for astronaut health
Test subjects in Cologne, Germany will take to their beds for 60 days from 25 March as part of a groundbreaking study, funded by European Space Agency ESA and US...