The FINANCIAL — After three years of shutdown, the most powerful particle accelerator has been switched on today and will shortly begin another run of cutting-edge physics. The Large Hadron Collider … [+8757 chars]
FLORIDA - Days after a SpaceX Dragon capsule crewed by wealthy adventurers splashed down off Florida's coast, another is set to launch Wednesday, this time for a NASA mission to the International Spa… [+1928 chars]
An untouched, almost pure argon deposit that has been left since the formation of the Earth is set to help physicists gather better insight into the universe. The Urania Project facility in southwes… [+4494 chars]
The building blocks of life may have come from outer space. Meteorite Life Scientists have discovered the building blocks of DNA in meteorites that landed in North America and Australia, Reuters re… [+2029 chars]
Jupiter is known for being a giant planet made of gas, but many people on Twitter have learned just how fast it rotates and they can't quite believe it. Dr. James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) a planetary… [+3811 chars]
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The first solar eclipse of the year will arrive this week, coinciding with the second new moon of April called the Black Moon. On Saturday 30 April a partial solar eclipse will be visible over parts… [+1807 chars]
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Last week, NASA's Perseverance Rover captured a gorgeous view of Phobos eclipsing the Sun, from the surface of Mars. From the point of view of any Martian microbes lurking out there, the eclipse may … [+2193 chars]
Gossip will delight you with more accurate weather reports. Scientists and forecasters are totally excited. The first satellite weather report The second generation of Europeans, MetOp-SG with its li… [+2266 chars]
By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman Rendezvous of the Crew Dragon capsule with the station less than 16 hours after launch of the astronauts from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, … [+823 chars]
At first glance, it looks just like our own northern lights on Earth. But this aurora is over 55 million kilometers (40 million miles) away on Mars. And the researchers who spotted it say it is somet… [+6919 chars]