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Hidden giant planet revealed around tiny white dwarf star

Its size is similar to that of Neptune and is more than four times as large as the Earth-sized white dwarf it orbits. Due to the fact that the massive pla...

Sidharth Burra speaks about the recently-located Vikram Lander

In this context, it is puzzling why ISRO, in spite of its capabilities, had shied away from sharing data about the crash - its location, images and analysis - w...

Parker Solar Probe: 'We're missing something fundamental about the sun'

Professor Horbury added: "Although Parker Solar Probe will get even more accurate measurements of the young solar wind at its closest approach, it's too close f...

NASA To Launch A "Robot Hotel" Outside International Space Station

RTS will serve more like a parking spot for robots, first of which will be two Robotic External Leak Locators (RELL). SpaceX and NASA like to send some funn...

Trump Administration Considered Banning Huawei from U.S. Banking System

USA authorities say the company is a security risk, which Huawei denies, and announced curbs in May on its access to American components and technology. The mov...

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy conducts first commercial flight

The Falcon-Heavy rocket was launched at 22:35 (GMT) 11th April 2019, carrying Arabsat 6A satellite, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, to be placed in the exclusi...

SpaceX scrubs cargo launch to space station, will try again Thursday

Once outside the station, those detectors now need to wait 12 hours in space to clear itself of water vapor and other gases from inside the station. "Its ther...

Massive Black-hole weighs around 70 solar masses

Considering the way massive stars form and die, a black hole this enormous should not be possible in our galaxy. The hole is called LB-1 and is 70 times larger ...

WMO says this decade has been the hottest ever recorded

THIS decade is set to be the hottest in history, the United Nations said today in an annual assessment outlining the ways in which climate change is outpacing...

Dying coral reefs could be saved by attracting fish with underwater music

An worldwide team of scientists from the UK's University of Exeter and University of Bristol, and Australia's James Cook University and Australian Institute o...

NASA finds Chandrayaan - 2's Vikram lander debris on Moon, tweets pic

The US space agency released an image taken by its LRO that showed the site of the spacecraft's impact (September 6 in India and September 7 in the US) and the ...

COP25: United Nations chief issues stark warning as climate summit begins

Of course, Pelosi, by saying, "we are still in it", is not specifically referencing the United States' forgone involvement in the Paris climate agreement, b...

President Trump calls for eradicating AIDS and HIV in 10 years

Past year it was slightly up, at 199 people - but still a far cry from the epidemic's peak in the 1990s, when in 1996 more than 700 people were diagnosed in the...

Ban Black Friday? French activists, lawmakers want to try

To many activists, Black Friday is the epitome of this shift, a purely commercial event created to boost US retailers ahead of the Christmas holidays, the symbo...

Giant black hole 'should not even exist,' stunned scientists say

However, he stated that astronomers just started to find out how many black holes are in the galaxy, and their process of formation . "This is the first". In A...

Do you care? NASA wants to put a woman on the moon

It doesn't give just one location however, but gives a few possible locations which are then referenced with the original seismic data to help refine the origin...

China's new lunar rover leaves first "footprint" on moon's far side

The mission harbored some risk, because operators on Earth can not directly communicate with spacecraft on the moon's far side. "The process was recorded by t...

SpaceX Crew Dragon test firing results in cloud of smoke, called 'anomaly'

The company had been gearing up for a mission abort test that would have fired all eight of Crew Dragon's SuperDraco engines in mid-launch, showing that the...

China's moon lander sprouted a plant, but now it's dead

After making the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, China's Chang'e-4 mission pioneered the first mini biosphere experiment on the moon. The ...

Chinese scientists discover unpredicted stellar black hole

The statement noted that scientists had previously believed that an individual stellar black hole - formed when a star collapses - in our galaxy could weigh o...

A black hole so huge it 'shouldn't even exist' in our galaxy

Astronomers have found a stellar-mass black hole clocking in at around 70 times the mass of the Sun - but according to current models of stellar evolution, its ...

Researchers Think Planets Can Form Around Supermassive Black Holes

There are now no known methods of observing a black hole's accretion disk at a high enough resolution to even spot something baby planets forming so the resea...

Hawaiian observatory captures closeup of interstellar comet

The resulting image is the closest look yet at the interstellar comet since it was discovered last summer. Since first spotted at the end of August, by am...

Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Atmosphere Reaches New Record High

With the use of data from monitoring stations in the Arctic and across the world, researchers said that in 2018, Carbon dioxide concentrations reached 407.8 par...

Plane carrying Orion spaceship set to land Sunday in Mansfield

NASA's ambitions for manned spaceflight have not been so high for decades. Researchers will test Orion's systems in a vacuum chamber before it is launched in th...

Post-secondary student services in limbo during opt-out appeal period

The case arose out of a legal challenge to the Student Choice Initiative that was launched by the York Federation of Students (YFS) and the Canadian Federation ...

'Unicorn meteor storm' could be triggered by mysterious comet tonight

The parent comet of Alpha Monocerotids has not been discovered, leading Cooke to question how accurate the prediction is. Now, two reputable meteor experts ...

Boeing CST-100 Starliner Heads to Launch Site Ahead of Maiden Voyage

After leaving Kennedy Space Centre, Boeing's Starliner crew capsule gets hoisted atop its Atlas V launcher. The original dragon carried out supply runs to the...

New Map of Titan

The map was developed by a team at Arizona State University, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). This year, in June, NASA unveiled D...

Meteor Shower Could Produce Hundreds Of Meteors Tonight

Two meteor scientists, Peter Jenniskens and Esko Lyytinen , shared their prediction for an outburst by the alpha Monocertoid meteor shower on November 21 or ...

Coldplay eyeing carbon neutral tour Music

Martin said that he hopes to one day host a concert that is powered by solar energy, and using only single-use plastics, of course. Rather than touring, the b...

Marlon Mack Has Surgery For Broken Hand, Out At Least One Week

Mack's 13-yard touchdown run, complete with a spin move, knotted the score at 7-7 with 35 seconds left in the first quarter. The severity of the fracture is unc...

Cosmic explosions even more powerful than first thought

Such an intensely powerful signal can only come from some of the most energetic events in the cosmos. 'What is remarkable about these particular bursts isn't ...

NASA Has Detected The Building Blocks of Life in Two Meteorites

Danny Glavin, also from the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. To be clear, this is not table sugar (sadly, scientists...

Brazil says Amazon deforestation is worst since 2008

The charity's comments followed new figures released by the Brazilian Federal Government, which showed deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon had reached 9.762...