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Triple-star system's strange antics entrance scientists digging through 125 years of data

A view of HS Hydra, in the center, captured by the Digitized Sky Survey. (Image: © Space Telescope Science Institute). Scientists have combined modern spacecraft data with vintage ...

Astronomers are still reeling from the loss of iconic Arecibo radio telescope

An image of the Arecibo Observatory's iconic radio telescope as seen between two serious cable failures that preceded the facility's collapse. (Image: © University of Central Florida). The collapse of ...

Boeing says assembly complete on first set of new space station solar arrays

Astronauts will begin a series of spacewalks as soon as the end of January to ready the space station's solar array truss for the arrival of the new wings, among other outfitting and maintenance tasks. The six ...

Building a giant 2-D map of the universe to prepare for the largest 3-D map

The 2-D map, pieced together from 200,000 telescope images and several years of satellite data, lacks information about galaxy distances, and DESI will supply this and provide other useful details by measuring the color signatures and "redshift" of galaxies ...

Doubling the number of known gravitational lenses

Examples of gravitational lenses found in the DESI Legacy Survey data. Credit: KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey. Data from the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) Legacy Imaging Surveys have revealed over 1200 new ...

Scientists discover electric eels hunting in a group

De Santana is the senior author of a new paper describing this novel behavior in the Jan. 14 issue of the journal Ecology and Evolution. The findings overturn the idea that these serpentine fish are exclusively solitary predators and open the door to new ...

Galaxies hit single, doubles, and triple (growing black holes)

When three galaxies collide, what happens to the huge black holes at the centers of each? A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes reveals new information about how many black holes are furiously growing after ...

NASA's Juno mission expands into the future

NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring Jupiter. The agency's most distant planetary orbiter will now continue its investigation of the solar system's largest planet through September 2025, or until the spacecraft's end of life.

Blue Origin to test passenger accommodations on suborbital launch

Blue Origin is set to test an upgraded capsule on a suborbital spaceflight Thursday over West Texas, validating new environmental control systems, in-cabin displays, and passenger communication systems before Jeff Bezos's space company begins flying ...

New state of matter in one-dimensional quantum gas

Now, researchers led by Stanford University physicist Benjamin Lev have developed a quantum version of Archimedes' screw that, instead of water, hauls fragile collections of gas atoms to higher and higher energy states without collapsing. Their discovery is ...