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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Plunges Into Fast Solar Wind and Discovers Its
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has detected the origin and structure of the solar wind close to the sun’s surface, observing high-energy particles aligned with flows in coronal holes. This discovery, indicating magnetic reconnection…
NASA’s sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe finds source of ‘fast’ solar wind
NASA's sun-touching Parker Solar probe has flown close enough to our star to spot the fine details of the solar wind — including its origin, "coronal holes" in the sun's atmosphere.Armed with this information, scientists may now be able…
Webb telescope captures galaxy 20 million light-years away
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This is a composite image of two snapshots the James Webb Space Telescope…
Newly Discovered Brain Mechanism Linked to Anxiety and OCD
A study conducted by the University of Utah Health scientists has revealed the significant role of microglia, a minor cell type in the brain, in controlling anxiety-related behaviors. The study discovered that certain populations of…
Watch SpaceX launch a Dragon cargo ship to space station June 5 after 2-day
Updated on June 5: SpaceX has delayed the launch of its CRS-28 cargo mission to no earlier than today (June 5) at 11:47 a.m. EDT (1547 GMT) due to strong winds in the rocket recovery zone. The launch had been scheduled to occur on…
SpaceX launches Starlink, but scrubs Sunday’s back-to-back missions
SpaceX kicked off Sunday with the first of two Falcon 9 missions slated to launch from Florida just hours apart, but the second couldn't get off the ground due to weather conditions in the Atlantic Ocean.At 8:20 a.m. EDT, a Falcon 9…
Stephen Hawking’s famous theory of how black holes die could mean our entire
Black holes die by evaporation, Stephen Hawking theorized.Science Photo Library - MARK GARLICK/Getty ImagesStephen Hawking famously predicted in 1974 that black holes die by evaporation.But experts thought the extreme gravitational…
Time-lapse of Solar Cycle 25 displays increasing activity on the Sun
November 4, 2021
A series of CMEs caused the first severe geomagnetic storm - G4 - in Solar Cycle 25. Following activity on Halloween, as the Sun was rotating out of view this same sunspot region launched at least one CME. Another CME…
NASA plays hide-and-seek with unrelenting Mars helicopter Ingenuity
Comment on this storyCommentFor around a week in April, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory searched anxiously for signs of life on Mars.Lost somewhere in the undulating terrain of a Martian riverbed was Ingenuity, the…
Researchers get primate embryos to start organ development in culture dishes –
Enlarge / Computer-generated image of an early stage in embryonic development, before organ formation starts.
Scientists set a new record for growing primate embryos outside the womb, as…