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Abel Prize Goes to Mathematician Who Studied Equations That Describe Nature

As a mathematician, Luis A. Caffarelli of the University of Texas at Austin tries to answer questions that sound simple, even potentially useful: How does the shape of a piece of ice change as it melts? Can a smooth flow of water ever spin out of ...

Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 48th flight on the Red Planet

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter made its 48th off-Earth flight on Tuesday (March 21). Ingenuity buzzed over the Martian landscape at a maximum altitude of around 39 feet (12 meters), observing potential science targets that could be studied by its ...

Fly over Perseverance rover's Mars stomping grounds in new video

A spectacular new video takes viewers on a flight through an ancient lakebed on the surface of Mars, revealing details of the fascinating area known as Jezero Crater. The video pans around the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero, which is currently ...

Sea level rise slowed down in 2022. NASA says it's just a blip

Global sea levels rose more slowly in 2022 than models predicted. But there's no reason to celebrate, according to NASA. The minor deviation from a decades-long trend was caused by the cooling effects of the La Niña climate pattern, and we are no doubt ...

See the moon and Jupiter meet in the sky tonight (March 22)

The moon has a date with Jupiter tonight (March 22), with the two bodies sharing the same right ascension in an arrangement astronomers call a conjunction. At the same time, Jupiter and the moon will make a close approach in the night sky, an encounter ...

Measuring the cohesive force of meteorite fragments to identify the mobility of asteroids

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The cohesive force of asteroid particles influence microgravity and can be evaluated under several assumptions of particle size and their sensitivity to particle shape. Approximately hundreds of kilograms of material fall on to Earth's atmosphere daily ...

5 planets will align on March 27 and you won't want to miss it. Here's where to look.

On Mar. 27, a planetary parade made up of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Uranus will march across the sky. At this particular time of the year, amateur astronomers are participating in the Messier Marathon. Originally conceived by the late comet ...

Oumuamua Was a Comet After All, a Study Suggests

Was it alien space junk? A wandering interstellar asteroid? Or a weird comet from another sun? Ever since 2017, when astronomers in Hawaii discovered an object they called Oumuamua (Hawaiian for "scout") zipping through the solar system, they have been ...

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This Is the Lightest Paint in the World

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Debashis Chanda had trouble finding a physicist who could paint. The researchers in his nanoscience lab at the University of Central Florida had already worked out the kinks in the high-end machinery needed to create a revolutionary new kind of cooling ...

This mysterious streak of light over California is actually an old space station antenna meeting its doom (video)

Last Friday night (March 17), as many were marking the celebration of St. Patrick's Day by quenching a heavy thirst at their nearest watering hole, some skyward-gazing citizens in Sacramento, California were left wide-eyed at the site of flaming trails ...