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Many-armed and dangerous. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/P.Ogle et al; Optical: NASA/STScI & R.Gendler; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA. By Joshua Sokol. Just beyond the Local Group of galaxies that surround our Milky Way, where our map of ...

Mark Kolbe/Getty. By New Scientist staff and Press Association. Weather and climate extremes have continued into 2017 after last year saw record-breaking temperatures, says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Global average temperatures were ...

Ice, ice maybe: New Mars discovery baffles scientists, suggests liquid water impossible A Mars rover has caused new confusion over theories about water on Mars after studying rocks which appear to both prove and disprove current ideas about liquid on the ...

originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the collaboration. In the middle of a clearing, beneath the bright blue bowl of the western Colorado sky, two scientists stood chest-deep in a pit dug into the snow. Crisp morning sunlight glinted off the ...

This digital-image mosaic of Mars' Tharsis plateau shows the extinct volcano Arsia Mons. It was assembled from images that the Viking 1 Orbiter took during its 1976-1980 working life at Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS. New NASA research reveals that the ...

CU Boulder Professor Gifford Miller, shown here, is part of a team that has found the Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island, the last remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, will vanish in several hundred years because of rising temperatures caused by human activity.

Human fibroblast cells, common connective tissue cells, growing on decellularized parsley. A team of UW-Madison researchers from the lab of bioengineering Professor William Murphy is exploring the use of plants to make the three-dimensional structures ...

The Large Hadron Collider has discovered new sub-atomic particles that could help to explain how the centres of atoms are held together. The particles are all different forms of the so-called Omega-c baryon, whose existence was confirmed in 1994.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX fired up a twice-used Falcon 9 rocket Friday (Dec. 13), setting the stage for the launch of a a hefty next communications satellite into space next week. SpaceX conducted the Falcon 9 test at Space Launch Complex 40 at ...

... ‌. “The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA,” said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio about the discovery of a massive storm system at Jupiter's ...

A type of aurora on Mars -- first identified by National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (Nasa) MAVEN spacecraft in 2016 -- is the most common form of the lights occurring on the Red Planet, according to a study which can help track water loss from the ...

Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic field of which is apparent only when the star is seen ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS/CNN) – Stargazers, keep an eye out for the Geminid Meteor shower overnight. It's an annual event that sometimes brings more than 60 visible meteors to the skies every hour. The Geminid meteor shower is one of the most active and ...

By Jonny Lupsha, News Writer. The “epigenetic clock” may gauge life expectancy and aging in dogs, according to an article in Science. By observing chemical changes in canine DNA, scientists can estimate dogs' relative ages to ours—and maybe even how ...

Press Release From: Kennedy Space Center Posted: Friday, December 13, 2019. The launch of Boeing's Orbital Flight Test (OFT) to the International Space Station, as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, is targeted for 6:36 a.m. EST Friday, Dec. 20.

(CNN) A new study shows that the deepest point on land is under the Denman Glacier in East Antarctica. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine, were mapping the area only to find that the trough under the glacier went far deeper than they had ...

Researchers at the University of Guelph (U of G) recently published an article in Nature Scientific Reports in which they describe the first every use of antimatter to investigate processes connected to potential long-term storage of nuclear waste. The team ...

This Friday, look up to the sky to catch one of the most prolific and reliable meteor showers of the year! The Geminid meteor shower will put on a dazzling display for sky watchers when it peaks Dec. 13 – 14. Despite the nearly-full Moon, you'll be able to see ...

Last month, NASA funded a team of scientists to investigate the possibility of sending a mission to Venus, and now the agency has revealed more about the potential benefits and practicalities of such a mission. Despite being our planetary neighbor, we know ...

All long since Earth revolves around sunlight, it moves through flows of cosmic debris. The subsequent meteor showers may light up night sky from dusk to sunrise, and if you are lucky you may have the ability to catch a peek. The following shower you may ...