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10 cosmic mysteries the Large Hadron Collider could unravel

The Higgs boson; Dark matter; Dark energy; WIMPs; Axions; Ghost particles; Supersymmetry; Matter-antimatter problem; Mystery particles; The Standard Model. What ...

Boeing's Starliner capsule on track to launch on OFT-2 mission to space station May 19

NASA and Boeing are confident that the valve glitch that grounded Starliner for eight months has been fixed. Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ahead ...

Rocket Lab briefly catches booster in mid-air after successful launch

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A camera on Rocket Lab's recovery helicopter shows the Electron booster under its parachute following launch Monday. Credit: Rocket Lab. Rocket Lab used a helicopter to capture a spent Electron first stage booster and its parachute after launching ...

SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut mission will return to Earth early Friday morning

Crew-3's Dragon capsule had been scheduled to depart the ISS on Wednesday evening (May 4) and return to Earth the following day. But things have been pushed back slightly, NASA officials announced today (May 3).

Sun fires off huge solar flare from new sunspot coming into view

"Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation," NASA tweeted of the event. "Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in ...

A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon red the night of May 15

It will be visible from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the eastern Pacific, the South Pacific and even Antarctica. The total lunar eclipse on Sept. 27, 2015, as seen from Washington, D.C. (Image credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani).

The Eta Aquariids meteor shower will dazzle this week

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The Eta Aquariids, named after the Aquarius constellation, derive from the debris of Halley's Comet, the well-known comet that is visible from earth every 76 years, according to NASA. The last time the comet was spotted in our sky was in 1986, and it won't ...

Biologists investigate what happens when traits jump between branches of the tree of life

The authors considered two single-celled eukaryotes (organisms whose cells contain a nucleus). The first, a species in the genus Colpidium, subsists on a diet of smaller microbes. The second, Paramecium bursaria ...

NASA visualization rounds up the best-known black hole systems

Nearby black holes and their stellar companions form an astrophysical rogues' gallery in this new NASA visualization. Stars born with more than about 20 times the sun's mass end their lives as black holes. As the name implies, black holes don't glow on ...

Scientists begin studying 50-year-old frozen Apollo 17 samples

Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been curated in a freezer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston since Apollo 17 astronauts returned them to Earth in ...