The sun is beginning to perk up again.An international panel of scientists announced on Tuesday that the sun had emerged from the quietest part of its 11-year sunspot cycle and...
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On such worlds, “as far as we can tell, only life can make phosphine,” Dr. Sousa-Silva said. She has long studied the gas, on the theory that finding it being...
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The Nebra sky disk has been hailed as the oldest known representation of the cosmos. Uncovered by looters in 1999 and then recovered in a sting by archaeologists and law...
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“This is the first and only firm/secure mass measurement of an intermediate mass black hole at the time of its birth,” Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, wrote in...
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The moon is drifting away. Every year, it gets about an inch and a half farther from us. Hundreds of millions of years from now, our companion in the sky...
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In an email, Edward Guinan of Villanova University, who has been tracking Betelgeuse, called the new Hubble data “fantastic,” and said Dr. Dupree’s theory was “a good working hypothesis.” He...
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All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and...
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The first astronaut trip to orbit by a private company parachuted to a safe conclusion in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday.It was the first water landing by NASA astronauts...
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The first astronaut trip to orbit by a private company is coming to an end. The passengers are two NASA astronauts — Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley —...
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If a hurricane does not get in the way, two astronauts who took the first commercial trip to orbit will return home on Sunday.Two astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas...
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