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See Mars rendezvous with the moon this Labor Day weekend

Every once in a while, something will appear in the sky that will attract the attention of even those who normally don't bother looking up. It's likely to be that way in the late-night hours of Saturday night/early Sunday morning (Sept. 5-6) when the waning ...

China just launched a 'reusable experimental spacecraft' into orbit

China launched an experimental reusable spacecraft into orbit on Friday (Sept. 4), with few details about what the spacecraft will do. A report from Chinese state media's Xinhua said the launch was successful and that a Long March 2F rocket sent the ...

Rocket limbo complicating NASA's Europa Clipper mission

NASA's highly anticipated mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa needs a rocket — and soon, the project's planners say. The Europa Clipper probe is scheduled to launch in 2024 to study the Jovian satellite, which harbors a huge sea of liquid water ...

The same black hole can collide with its kin multiple times, lopsided merger suggests

For black holes, a collision doesn't have to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, new research suggests. On April 12, 2019, scientists detected a new black-hole merger using a trio of gravitational-wave detectors. Astrophysicists have spotted such events before ...

Massive mystery holes appear in Siberian tundra — and could be linked to climate change

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CNN

(CNN) A Russian TV crew flying over the Siberian tundra this summer spotted a massive crater 30 meters (100 feet) deep and 20 meters wide -- striking in its size, symmetry and the explosive force of nature that it must have taken to have created it. Scientists ...

The Planetary Society

A devil on Mars and defenders of Earth

The Planetary Society

NASA's Curiosity rover recently captured this image of a dust devil on Mars. Swirling columns of wind and dust like this are common on the Martian surface. While this one is estimated to be at least 50 meters (164 feet) tall, Martian dust devils as tall as 8 ...

SPACE WEEK: An Astrophysicist On The End Of Everything

NPR

NPR

MADDIE SOFIA, HOST: You're listening to SHORT WAVE from NPR. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC). SOFIA: Maddie Sofia here bringing SHORT WAVE's Space Week to an end with the end of everything - the entire universe - which seems very fitting for the ...

New evidence that the quantum world is even stranger than we thought

New experimental evidence of a collective behavior of electrons to form "quasiparticles" called "anyons" has been reported by a team of scientists at Purdue University. Anyons have characteristics not seen in other subatomic particles, including exhibiting ...

Smoking Tied to COVID-19 Risk; Oxygen Meter May Help Home Patients

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The New York Times

(Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Smoking tied to higher levels of COVID-19-associated genes.

Neutrons probe biological materials for insights into COVID-19 virus infection

SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the disease COVID-19, is infecting the world at a rapid rate. Understanding how this infection works at the molecular level could help experts discover ways to moderate or stop the spread. A team of scientists at ...