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US planetary radar may get a boost from Green Bank Observatory

A new image created using a demonstration radar transmitter at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and receivers from the Very Long Baseline Array, captured in November 2020. (Image: © NRAO/GBO ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is in the home stretch of its journey to Red Planet

An artist's depiction of NASA's Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, storing samples of Martian rocks in tubes for future delivery to Earth. Perseverance will land inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

A string of planets in our solar system sparkles in photos from 3 different sun probes

These spacecraft are flying in different areas of our neighborhood on a quest to understand solar phenomena such as the extreme heat of the sun's outer atmosphere, the distribution of dust in our solar system or the production of the solar wind — the constant ...

'The Expanse' dials the drama up to 11 in season 5, episode 4

We begin with Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar) and Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams), onboard the Razorback, following the Barkeith, the ship that Lieutenant Emily Babbage (Lara Jean Chorostecki) is meant to making a routine run on. These two make an unlikely pair ...

Full moon in January 2021: When to see the Wolf Moon

(CNN) The first full moon of the year will light up the night sky on Thursday. The full moon will rise at 2:16 p.m. ET. Yes, that's right: It rises during the day and can be seen all night around the world, barring clouds or bad weather. Each moon has its own name ...

Friend or Foe? Naked Mole Rats Can Tell By A Unique Squeak

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NPR

When two nearly blind naked mole rats encounter each other in a dark subterranean tunnel, it could be a friendly meeting or a moment of potential bloodshed between strangers. The creatures chirp to each other in greeting—and what happens next depends ...

NASA's Artemis Base Camp on the moon will need light, water, elevation

American astronauts in 2024 will take their first steps near the moon's south pole: the land of extreme light, extreme darkness, and frozen water that could fuel NASA's Artemis lunar base and the agency's leap into deep space. Scientists and engineers are ...

Thumbs gave human ancestors a 'formidable' advantage

Researchers estimated how powerful the thumb was in some of our fossil human relatives by virtually modeling thumb muscles. (CNN) Whether we're texting ...

Astronomers find possible exoplanet-in-the-making within its own whirlpool

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EarthSky

Astronomers have discovered a possible newly-born planet forming within its own "whirlwind" of dust and pebbles, in orbit around a young star 330 light-years from Earth. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share. Bright yellowish and whitish ring with ...

Scientists capture the moments of nascent crystal formation and growth

This phenomenon has perplexed scientists and ordinary people alike. The nucleation process, in which the atoms gather and form the smallest crystals, has been an important scientific phenomenon that has been widely studied since the late 1800s.