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15/10/2020

The cluster was created when a meteor shattered over the Red Planet earlier this decade.

The AI tool spotted a cluster of craters that were created when a meteor shattered over Mars earlier this decade.

13/10/2020

Researchers discovered the exciting behavior while studying the so-called electron spins in the compound ruthenium trichloride.

Using a novel technique, scientists working at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have found evidence for a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that is promising as a building block for the quantum computers of tomorrow.

11/10/2020

The many millions of bodies populating the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit are yet to reveal many of their secrets.

The trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, also known as Ultima Thule, which NASA's space probe New Horizons passed on New Year's Day 2019, may have changed its shape significantly in the first 100 million years since its formation. In today's issue of the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers led by the....

10/10/2020

It’s the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet.

It's the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet. Sometime between March 2010 and May 2012, a meteor streaked across the Martian sky and broke into pieces, slamming into the planet's surface. The resulting craters were relatively small — just

08/10/2020

Exoplanets with lifespans up to 70 billion years.

  “Somewhere, on some other planet orbiting some very distant star, maybe in another galaxy, there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are, and are interested in science. It is not impossible,” says Nobel-Prize laureate, physicist Murray Gell-Mann. “I think there pro...

06/10/2020

NASA and SpaceX are beginning a regular cadence of missions with astronauts launching on an American rocket.

NASA and SpaceX are beginning a regular cadence of missions with astronauts launching on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 is the first crew rotation mission with four astronauts flying on a co...

06/10/2020

What are some skywatching highlights in October 2020? Not one, but two, full Moons; Mars at opposition; and finding the Andromeda galaxy.

https://youtu.be/-7UZuG_oZYo What are some skywatching highlights in October 2020? Not one, but two, full Moons; Mars at opposition; and finding the Andromeda galaxy. Highlights October is bringing a Harvest Moon AND a Blue Moon, plus look for Mars any time of the night, and go intergalactic wi

06/10/2020

Astronomers have obtained the highest resolution near-infrared images yet of the Carina Nebula, a thick cloud of dust and gas in which stars are actively forming.

06/10/2020

It's the third launch and landing for this Falcon 9!

06/10/2020

Three scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand black holes.

Three scientists including the UK's Roger Penrose have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.