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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.
Microplastics a million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought
Breast Cancer Linked to Permanent Hair Dye and Chemical Hair Straighteners in Study of Almost 50,000 Women
"The results do not surprise me," Otis W. Brawley, medical oncologist and epidemiologist at the Hopkins-Kimmel Cancer Center, told Newsweek. "Many ...
Dogs hear words the same way we do
Say “sit!” to your dog, and—if he’s a good boy—he’ll likely plant his rump on the floor. But would he respond correctly if the word were spoken by ...
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