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NASA's Opportunity Rover Feared Dead: "An Honorable Death"
On the week of the 15th anniversary of NASA's Opportunity rover's touchdown, officials are acknowledging that it could be permanently out of commission.
“This could be the end,” principal investigator Steven Squyres told the New York Times on Friday. “Under the assumption that this is ...
Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole | Quanta Magazine
Hot spots have been discovered orbiting just outside the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center. Their motions have given us the closest look at that violent environment.
“It’s a remarkable moment, in terms of these experiments’ ability to start probing how gravity works near a...
Cassini's Death Dive into Saturn Reveals Weird Ring "Rain" and More
The spacecraft’s final observations are turning up a wealth of bizarre, unexpected phenomena.
But what they seem to have found was far more material than they had expected, coming from far more exotic compounds. The instrument spotted not just hydrogen and helium but also carbon monoxi...
How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? With a Telescope as Big as the Earth
A planet-spanning virtual observatory, years in the making, could change how we think about space, time and the nature of reality. Will it work?
Avery Broderick, a theoretical astrophysicist who works with the Event Horizon Telescope, said in 2014 that the first picture of a black hole...
The Universe Is Disappearing, And There's Nothing We Can Do To Stop It
With every second that goes by, tens of thousands of star disappear from our reach. And it's getting worse.
'Magic mushroom' drug reduces anxiety and depression in cancer patients, study says
Macrolide use in pregnancy tied to higher risk of birth defects
The study, published this week in the BMJ, looked at data on more than 100,000 children born in the United Kingdom from 1990 to 2016 to mothers who...
In a Huge First, Physicists Have Captured Individual Atoms And Watched Them Merge
To understand how atoms unite to turn into molecules, we need to catch them in action. But to do that, physicists must force atoms to pause long en...
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