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DOJ announces elder fraud charges against 400, launches hotline
Attorney General William Barr announced Tuesday the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history.
Scientists shed light on mystery of dark matter
Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the "dark matter" in the Universe during the Big Bang.
Hope for a new permanent magnet that's cheap and sustainable
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a new, sustainable permanent magnet.
SpaceX test-fires rocket for next Dragon cargo ship launch for NASA
SpaceX has fired up the Falcon 9 rocket that will ferry the company's next cargo resupply mission for NASA into space Friday, March 6.
Look: Netflix shares bloody 'Kingdom' Season 2 posters
"Kingdom," a South Korean zombie series starring Ju Ji-hoon, Ryu Seung-ryong, Bae Doona and Kim Sung-kyu, will return March 13 on Netflix.
Coronavirus fears have shuttered one physics meeting. Here's how space conferences could respond
The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is beginning to affect major upcoming space and science gatherings.
Watch: Justin Bieber on 'romantic' birthday with Hailey Baldwin
Justin Bieber said his wife, model Hailey Baldwin, planned a romantic surprise for his 26th birthday.
Eyes in space to spot bushfire danger zones
Scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) will lead the development of the first Australian satellite designed to predict where bushfires are likely to start and those that will be...
Watch: Russell Westbrook rips through Knicks defense, dunks on three defenders
Russell Westbrook sprinted through the New York Knicks defense and threw down a vicious dunk over three defenders during a Houston Rockets loss at Madison Square Garden.
What if mysterious ‘cotton candy’ planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, “cotton candy like” exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal by Carnegie’s Anthony Piro and Caltech’s Shreyas Vissapragada...
New eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have discovered a new eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6341 (or M92). The newly found object received...
Total lunar eclipse: observing the Earth as a transiting planet
Astronomers have succeeded in recording sunlight shining through the Earth's atmosphere in a manner similar to the study of distant exoplanets. During the extraordinary occasion of a lunar eclipse, the...
Q&A: ‘We need to improve how we keep track of objects in space’
by Jonathan O’Callaghan We need to improve how we keep track of objects in space and predict where they will go in order to avoid collisions in Earth’s increasingly crowded orbit,...
Milky Way galaxy 'reverse engineered'
Like taking apart a piece of technology, the Milky Way galaxy has been reverse engineered to find out how it was assembled.
Watch: Duke's Cassius Stanley soars for one-handed alley-oop
Duke star Cassius Stanley took flight for a powerful one-handed alley-oop during a Blue Devils' win against North Carolina State.
Shedding new light on black hole ejections
Academics from the University of Cape Town (UCT) are part of a research group led by the University of Oxford's Department of Physics that has observed a black hole ejecting...
Globular cluster billowing in the galactic wind
The galactic magnetic field plays an important role in the evolution of the galaxy, but its small-scale behaviour is still poorly known. It is also unknown whether it permeates the halo of the...
Ripples in space-time could explain the mystery of why the universe exists
A new study may help answer one of the universe's biggest mysteries.
Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision, Gaia suggests
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA's star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with...
Blast off: space minnow Indonesia eyes celestial success
Workers snap the miniature rocket's wings into place as Indonesia's little-known space agency readies its latest launch on barren scrubland in East Java.
NASA picks SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch Psyche mission to metal asteroid in 2022
NASA has contracted SpaceX to launch its Psyche mission to a unique metal asteroid in July 2022.
Want to go to the moon? NASA is now taking new astronaut applications
If you've always wanted to fly to the International Space Station or go on to the moon, NASA's next recruitment effort promises to bring future astronauts to both locations.
SpaceX moving on to Starship SN2 prototype after SN1 bites the dust in test
SpaceX's SN1 Starship prototype was destroyed during a pressure test on Friday (Feb. 28). But the SN2 is already under construction and being prepped for testing, Elon Musk said.
Massive white dwarf star is the product of a stellar merger
An unusual white dwarf star was formed by a merger between two smaller white dwarfs, according to a new analysis by an international team of astronomers.
What if mysterious 'cotton candy' planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, 'cotton candy like' exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research.
Improving shoes, showers, 3-D printing: Research launching to the space station
A variety of science investigations, along with supplies and equipment, launch to the International Space Station on the 20th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. The Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled...
What if mysterious 'cotton candy' planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, "cotton candy like" exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal by Carnegie's Anthony Piro and Caltech's...
SpaceX Starship prototype explodes in test again
Another prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded during a pressure test at the company's construction yard in Boca Chica, Texas.