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NASA astronaut Victor Glover explains why sometimes we can't just stick to space

As Americans took to the streets in protest and NASA astronauts took to the skies on a commercial spacecraft, some space fans had a question: "Can't we just do space?" One space fan asked exactly the right person, NASA astronaut Victor Glover. Glover is a ...

Shock waves created in the lab mimic astrophysical particle accelerators powered by exploding stars

When stars explode as supernovas, they produce shock waves in the plasma surrounding them. So powerful are these shock waves, they can act as particle accelerators that blast streams of particles, called cosmic rays, out into the universe at nearly the ...

Commercial crew success prompts congratulations and criticism from Russia

SpaceNews

SpaceNews

WASHINGTON — The successful launch of the first crewed orbital flight from the United States in nearly nine years has met with a mixed reaction from Russia, with formal congratulations from Russian leadership but skepticism from others. While the overall ...

NASA spacecraft swoops down low over asteroid Bennu to eye sampling site

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has taken its closest look yet at a potential sample site on asteroid Bennu. The probe has been orbiting the asteroid since 2018 and has been preparing to collect a chunk of asteroid rock, which it will bring back to Earth in 2023.

Another mysterious radio burst in space is repeating a pattern. This one occurs every 157 days

CNN

CNN

Another mysterious radio burst in space is repeating a pattern. This one occurs every 157 days. By Ashley Strickland, CNN. Updated 2:35 PM ET, Mon June 8, 2020. Hidden in one of the darkest corners of the Orion constellation, this Cosmic Bat is.

Jupiter and Saturn form a triangle with the moon tonight. Here's how to see it.

For a spectacular night-sky sight you can enjoy while social distancing, look up late tonight (June 8) and early tomorrow morning to see Jupiter and Saturn form a triangle with Earth's moon. The waning, gibbous moon was in conjunction with Jupiter ...

Why a physicist wants to build a particle collider on the moon

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

As we probe deeper into the innermost workings of the universe, our particle physics experiments have become ever more complex. In order to reveal the secrets of the tiniest subatomic particles, physicists must make colliders and detectors as cold as ...

Titan is migrating away from Saturn 100 times faster than previously predicted

By Earthly standards, Saturn's moon Titan is a strange place. Larger than the planet Mercury, Titan is swaddled in a thick atmosphere (it is the only moon in the solar system to have one) and covered in rivers and seas of liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ...

Researchers discover 'cataclysmic' ancient super-eruptions in Yellowstone hotspot track

USA TODAY

USA TODAY

Researchers have discovered two ancient super-eruptions associated with the Yellowstone hotspot track, including what they believe was the volcanic province's "largest and most cataclysmic event," according to a new study. Two volcanic super-eruptions ...

International effort reveals 157 day cycle in unusual cosmic radio bursts

An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year observing campaign conducted at the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Using the long-term monitoring capabilities of the iconic Lovell Telescope, an ...