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After observing a series of bright flares of X-rays, something unprecedented occurred — more flashes that were smaller, later and different "colors" than their predecessors. According to a study published this week in ...

The initial inspiration for the Galileo Project came to Loeb in two parts: Both were objects identified near Earth that had looked unusual. The first was “Oumuamua,” discovered by a telescope in Hawaii in 2017 and later known as the first interstellar object to visit ...

History has changed forever after Neil Armstrong said “the eagle has landed,” but a new study is the Apollo 11 “Eagle” lunar module Eagle, which was once thought to have crashed on the moon. It suggests that some of the LM) may still be orbiting ...

Flurry of Covid data does not resolve debate around state of the pandemic in the UK.

July 30 (UPI) -- Electrical engineers at UCLA have used a new light-bending technique to convert the wavelengths of light, a breakthrough that could boost the performance of many optical technologies. Advertisement. Lightwave frequency conversion is key ...

Black holes are notorious for having such a strong gravitational pull that not even light can escape it, but that doesn't mean that light can't bend around it — in fact, the exceptionally strong gravity makes it more likely.

China's Zhurong rover has quietly clocked up 1,900 feet (585 meters) of driving on Mars and has been using its science instruments to check out nearby geologic features in Utopia Planitia. Zhurong's latest exploits have seen it analyze dunes amid the local ...

A Russian space official has blamed a software problem on a newly docked science lab that briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position. By DARIA LITVINOVA Associated Press. July 30, 2021, 6:50 AM. • 3 min read. Share to Facebook

It's long been believed that Mars' south pole is home to frozen underground lakes — but those 'lakes' could be something else entirely, thanks to a new study. Mars has proven to be one of the most fascinating nearby planets for space experts and novices ...

The government says counting all patients who test positive is vital because of the impact on the NHS.

A team of researchers from Italy, Spain and Georgia has found the remains of ancient hunting dogs at a dig site in what is now modern Georgia. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the group describes the fossils they found, their attempts ...

These vital signs are meant to capture Earth's health and include metrics such as concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the amount of heat absorbed by the oceans, ice sheet mass and deforestation. Now, ...

NEW DELHI: The highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus spreads as easily as chickenpox and appears to cause a more severe form of illness compared to other variants, media reports quoting an internal document from the US health authority said.

These objects — called 203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia — are redder than the reddest known objects in the asteroid belt and may have migrated to the area from beyond Neptune. If that's true, then they could provide ...

The 40,000 people a day Latitude festival is a Covid-19 restrictions test event for the government.

... — How the new Space Development Agency is changing Pentagon acquisition. — NASA asks a receptive Congress for billions in extra funding to modernize its aging facilities. — Boeing's Starliner faces its major test today on a cargo mission to the ...

On Thursday (July 29), SpaceX chief Elon Musk gave us an inside look at the engine section of a Super Heavy that's coming together at the company's South Texas site, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica.

It's almost hard to believe that until the early years of the 1990s, astronomers had yet to discover a planet outside the solar system. Even though scientists were certain that other stars orbited other stars, there was little evidence of other planetary systems until ...

The results suggest that these bacteria, and the specific compounds they produce — known as "secondary bile acids" — could contribute to a healthy gut and, in turn, healthy aging.

In a mind-mending experiment, scientists transformed purified water into metal for a few fleeting seconds, thus allowing the liquid to conduct electricity. Unfiltered water can already conduct electricity — meaning negatively charged electrons can easily flow ...