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Only total solar eclipse of 2020 thrills spectators in South America

The only total solar eclipse of 2020 dazzled spectators in South America, and some lucked out even as overcast skies threatened to put a damper on an incredible celestial event. Advertisement. The so-called Southern Cone has now been treated to two total ...

China's Chang'e 5 moon lander is no more after successfully snagging lunar rocks

The Chang'e 5 lander was a crucial part of China's daring sample-return mission. It made a stunning descent and soft landing in the moon's Oceanus Procellarum, or "Ocean of Storms," on Dec. 1 before conducting sampling and other science experiments.

Bizarre alien world may be analog of our solar system's putative Planet Nine

Planet Nine may not be such an oddball after all, if it does indeed exist. The exotic exoplanet HD 106906 b is an analog of sorts of Planet Nine, the Neptune-size world hypothesized to lurk in the outer reaches of our own solar system, a new study suggests.

China's moon rocks are officially on their way to Earth as Chang'e 5 probe leaves lunar orbit

China's Chang'e 5 orbiter is heading home on the final leg of its mission to collect fresh lunar samples from the moon. Advertisement. The orbiter began firing four 150-Newton engines at 8:51 p.m. EST Saturday (Dec. 12) (0151 GMT, 9:51 am Beijing time Dec.

EarthSky

NASA announces 18 astronauts on its Artemis Team

EarthSky

Two members of the Artemis Team are expected to become the first American man and woman to return to the moon since 1972. The first Artemis mission – an uncrewed test mission known as Artemis 1 – is expected to launch in November 2021. Sharing is ...

Galactic archaeology: Astronomers are using stars as fossils to study the Milky Way

Our Milky Way is thought to be home to as many as 400 billion stars, one of which is, of course, our own sun. But how and when did these stars form, and where did they come from? Understanding the stellar population of our galaxy could reveal a great deal, ...

A young but completely evolved entirely self-made galaxy

Color image of the galaxy C1-23152 at redshift z=3.352, when the universe was 1.8 billion years old. The image is the sum of three images at different wavelengths taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. C1-23152 appears a regular spheroidal galaxy, ...

The Verge

The pandemic couldn't keep the space industry down

The Verge

As most of the world slowed to a pandemic-induced halt this year, the space industry rocketed forward. A pair of astronauts launched to orbit on a private spacecraft for the first time. Three separate missions blasted off to Mars. And a robot hundreds of millions ...

Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors

Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes. The nanotube color atlas is detailed in a study in Advanced Materials about a new method to predict the ...

Critical temperature for tropical tree lifespan revealed

For the first time scientists have provided clear evidence that tropical tree lifespan decreases above a critical temperature threshold. Findings, published today in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) show that across the ...