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An astrophysicist from New Zealand has found a previously undiscovered star. Ryan Ridden-Harper, has been conducting a study as part of his PHD, at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, when he saw the "vampire ...

Jan. 25 (UPI) -- NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano have completed their spacewalk preparations ahead of Saturday morning's mission to finish repairs on the space station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, ...

The Yutu-2 rover snapped this image of its space chaffeur, the Chang'e 4 lander, on the far side of the moon. NASA's Doug Ellison processed the photo and shared it online. CNSA/Doug Ellison. A new batch of images from the far side of the moon landed on ...

Kepler spacecraft, which belongs to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has recently detected a vampire star system in space and it's an unusual super-outburst. It is to be noted that NASA's Kepler spacecraft was designed to find ...

A prototype of China's original crew tablet will initiate as soon as April on an unpiloted test flight in Earth orbit. Credit rating: CCTV. The following flight of China's heavy-raise Long March 5 rocket will debut a brand original configuration designed to initiate ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu), on December 3rd, 2018. Since then, the spacecraft has been examining the asteroid's ground, buying for a correct touchdown standing to amass a sample. The hassle is ...

ANI | Updated: Jan 25, 2020 08:33 IST. Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a 'vampire' star in the midst of a feeding frenzy, with the help of an automated program that is sifting through archived data from the decommissioned ...

Staff are encouraged to drive to work less and bring in reusable cups and bottles as part of NHS climate plans.

We all can use a little heat right now as we descend into the depths of winter, so we should take comfort in the fact that NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will keep temperatures rising as its latest solar probe prepares to unlock the atomic mysteries ...

Drugs routinely prescribed for diabetes, inflammation, alcoholism – and even for treating arthritis in dogs – can also kill cancer cells in the laboratory, according to a new study that even caught the researchers by surprise. The study – in which thousands of ...

FOUR new species of tropical sharks that use their fins to walk are causing a stir in waters off northern Australia and New Guinea. While that might strike fear into the hearts of some people, University of Queensland researchers say the only creatures with ...

At just before 9 p.m., on the night of Tuesday, January 21, 2020, southern Ontario had an unexpected visitor - a hunk of rock from space that blazed through the sky as a meteor fireball. The meteor, which flashed overhead just to the north of Goderich, ON, was ...

It might seem like something out of a bad horror movie, but it's true — scientists have discovered four new species of sharks that can walk, according to CNN. The discovery brings the total of known species of walking sharks up to nine, and all of them live in ...

February is the best time to view the winter constellations in the evening sky, and among them brilliant Sirius, the brightest of the night-time stars. The giant blue-white star is located just over eight light years away, and when it is low in the sky the scintillation of ...

M-type (red dwarf) stars are cooler, low-mass, low-luminosity objects that make up the vast majority of stars in our Universe – accounting for 85% of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. In recent years, these stars have proven to be a treasure trove for ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have identified Earth's oldest-known impact crater, and in doing so may have solved a mystery about how our planet emerged from one of its most dire periods. Researchers have determined that the 45-mile-wide (70-km-wide) ...

CLEVELAND — It's official. Dr. Marla Pérez-Davis is the new director of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. She has been acting director of the facility since last October. On Friday, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine made the promotion official.

An international collaborative study led by geneticists at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer Medical Research Institute (QIMR) in Brisbane, Australia, has used a multivariate approach to develop a polygenic risk score (PRS) for glaucoma ...

New information from SpaceX says Sunday's spectacular in-flight abort above Cape Canaveral was as successful as it looked. The fireball was the visual highlight, but it's the post-flight analysis of what happened Sunday that may be what's most important ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Bishop Kearney graduate Pam Melroy will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Melroy is one of the only two women to command the space shuttle. She was selected for the astronaut program in 1995 and ...