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How do you drive a Mars rover from home? Don't worry, NASA's got this.

Imagine trying to control a Mars rover from your living room — that's what the team behind NASA's Curiosity rover is doing right now. People all around the world are working from home right now, including most NASA workers after the space ...

Europe's Cheops telescope begins study of far-off worlds

Europe's newest space telescope has begun ramping up its science operations. Cheops was launched in December to study and characterise planets outside our Solar System. And after a period of commissioning and testing, the orbiting observatory is now ...

Biggest cosmic mystery 'step closer' to solution

Stars, galaxies, planets, pretty much everything that makes up our everyday lives owes its existence to a cosmic quirk. The nature of this quirk, which allowed matter to dominate the Universe at the expense of antimatter, remains a mystery. Now, results from ...

Even astronauts get ornery: Coronavirus advice from those who have endured social distancing in the extreme

Washington Post

Washington Post

Don't count the days. Tallying them, like etches on a prison wall, will only serve as a reminder of how interminable the coronavirus quarantine is, how insufferably abnormal, each mind-numbing day building unmercifully into a contagion of its own. "I have no ...

Star's motion around Milky Way's monster black hole proves Einstein right yet again

Einstein's theory of general relativity just passed a dramatic black-hole test with flying colors. The motion of a star orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, precisely matches that predicted by general relativity, ...

50 years ago, Apollo 13's Jack Swigert flew to the moon, but forgot something big. Taxes.

Fifty years ago, Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert forgot to do his taxes. (oops). With this momentous anniversary, people around the world are celebrating the mission that has famously been remembered as a "successful failure." But, as we recall the fast ...

Astronomers saw a star dancing around a black hole. And it proves Einstein's theory was right

CNN International

CNN International

Astronomers saw a star dancing around a black hole. And it proves Einstein's theory was right. By Ashley Strickland, CNN. Updated 3:01 AM ET, Thu April 16, 2020. This is an artist's concept of the tiny moon Hippocamp that was. Photos: Wonders of the ...

After 7 Months In Space, Meir Will Return To A Very Different World

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NPR

NPR's David Greene connects with American astronaut Jessica Meir at the International Space Station, as she observes the COVID-19 outbreak from the ultimate quarantine. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: If you think you are a little isolated at home, picture the ...

EarthSky

Is 'Oumuamua a fragment of a shattered super-Earth?

EarthSky

Computer simulations confirm that 'Oumuamua – an object from another star system that sped near our sun in 2017 – likely formed via a close encounter with its star. 'Oumuamua may have originated in a debris disk, they said, or even a shattered super-Earth.

Metabolomics and mass spectrometry imaging reveal channeled de novo purine synthesis in cells

Science Magazine

Science Magazine

Eukaryotic cells have a heterogeneous cytoplasm, with compartments large and small, membrane bound or not. Enzymes that catalyze the de novo synthesis of purine nucleotides, which are needed in rapidly dividing cells, are known to assemble into loosely ...