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Prince William, Kate Middleton celebrate 9th wedding anniversary
Prince William and Kate Middleton celebrated their wedding anniversary ahead of their daughter Princess Charlotte's fifth birthday.
Report: North Korea scientists ‘making it rain’ with cloud seeding
North Korea's top university has been testing artificial rainfall since 2017, according to a South Korean press report.
Spitzer Telescope reveals the precise timing of a black hole dance
Black holes aren't stationary in space; in fact, they can be quite active in their movements. But because they are completely dark and can't be observed directly, they're not easy...
Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail.
After coronavirus: Your next flight may look like this
Your next flight probably won't be much like your last one. It may cost more, it may be emptier, it may include a 'sky janitor.' And forget snacks.
4-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Martian meteorites
A research team including research scientist Atsuko Kobayashi from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, and research scientist Mizuho Koike from the Institute of Space...
HD 38170 is a magnetic B-type star, observations suggest
An international team of astronomers has conducted spectropolarimetric observations of four stars identified by the MOBSTER (Magnetic OB[A] Stars with TESS: probing their Evolutionary and Rotational properties) project. The study...
Researchers identify periods in asynchronous polars
A polar is a highly magnetic type of cataclysmic variables containing an accreting white dwarf and a low-mass donor star. Due to the magnetism, the white dwarf would synchronously spin,...
Comet ATLAS disintegrates into pieces as Hubble telescope watches (photos)
Comet ATLAS has disintegrated before our very eyes, and two new images from the Hubble Space Telescope show the comet has crumbled into 25 pieces.
Mute buttons and decorating tips: the House of Commons stumbles through an online session
Members of Parliament gathered today for their first full session by videoconference. Viewers were treated to technical glitches and glimpses of politicians' personal tastes in interior decorating — and a...
Name Thomas’ next space mission!
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is due to fly to the International Space Station in 2021 and will soon begin training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA after finishing a...
SpaceX develops new sunshade to make Starlink satellites less visible from Earth
SpaceX plans to launch a Starlink satellite in May with a sunshade to make it less visible from Earth and mitigate interruptions to astronomical observations, company founder Elon Musk told...
Dancing gargantuan black holes perform on cue
Scientists predict the explosive behaviour of two supermassive black holes almost to the hour.
Spitzer telescope reveals the precise timing of a black hole dance
Scientists have finally figured out the precise timing of a complicated dance between two enormous black holes, revealing hidden details about the physical characteristics of these mysterious cosmic objects.
Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
The large near-Earth object is well known to astronomers and will get no closer than 3.9 million miles to our planet.
In Gov. Newsom's four-phase plan to reopen the state, concerts are phase four
Gov. Gavin Newsom said today that "therapeutics" would have to be developed and implemented before mass gatherings such as concerts and sporting events could return to California.
Small asteroid zips safely by Earth just ahead of a larger space rock's flyby
An asteroid about the size of a car gave Earth a close shave Tuesday (April 28), just ahead of a flyby of another big space rock, according to NASA officials.
Students’ shoebox-sized satellite gets green light for launch
Most graduating seniors expect to write a final thesis, or perhaps co-author a paper or present a poster or talk at an academic conference. By the time Paul Köttering graduates...
Venus shines at its brightest of the year tonight! Here's how to see it.
Venus, the most brilliant planet in the night sky, will be shining at its brightest tonight (April 28).
Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the fragile...
Disintegration of a comet observed by UCLA astronomer
In images captured in recent days by the Hubble Space Telescope, UCLA professor David Jewitt observed a comet breaking into more than two dozen fragments. The images are the sharpest...
Radar views show big asteroid 1998 OR2 tumbling in space ahead of Earth flyby (video)
You can take the measure of the big space rock that will zoom by Earth early Wednesday morning (April 28), thanks to radar views from the Arecibo Observatory.
Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the fragile...
Coronavirus canceled wedding season. So what's a wedding singer to do?
Playing weddings was a safe, steady gig for musicians. Until coronavirus. Now everyone from mariachis to DJs to bookers wonders when the next gig might be.
Each of these 'tiny' threads of blazing-hot plasma on the sun is 125 miles wide
The farther scientists zoom in on our sun, the more details they see.
Astronaut coffee break: nine-person crew
Video: 00:04:36 Take a break with ESA astronauts Alexander Gerst, Samantha Cristoforetti, Luca Parmitano and Thomas Pesquet as they discuss living and working in space. In this video, our astronauts cover the ins...
France's Ligue 1 soccer season canceled due to coronavirus
French soccer league Ligue 1 on Tuesday became one of the first major sports leagues in the world to cancel the remainder of its season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Balloon-borne Investigation Provides First Simultaneous Measurements of Crucial Coronal Parameters
PROJECT Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of Electrons in the corona (BITSE) SNAPSHOT New technology demonstrated on BITSE has simultaneously detected the 2D density, temperature, and speed of electrons in the solar...