Deflecting an Asteroid Before It Hits Earth May Take Multiple ...
After years of shooting meteorites with a special gun owned by NASA, researchers highlighted challenges for a preferred […]
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A Blue Hour Full Moon
Nature photographers and other fans of planet Earth always look forward to the blue hour. That’s the transition […]
Solar System Ball Drop
Does a ball drop faster on Earth, Jupiter, or Uranus? The featured animation shows a ball dropping from […]
‘Totally Surprising and Rather Horrifying’: Giant Tortoises Eat Baby Birds ...
For the first time, scientists in the Seychelles captured footage of one of the hulking reptiles stalking and […]
PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons
It’s not the big disk that’s attracting the most attention. Although the big planet-forming disk around the star […]
Abell 3827: Cannibal Cluster Gravitational Lens
Is that one galaxy or three? Toward the right of the featured Hubble image of the massive galaxy […]
A microscopic video shows the coronavirus on the rampage. by ...
Inside a bat’s brain, the pathogen destroys cells, but not before it forces them to build more invaders. […]
Explosions from White Dwarf Star RS Oph
Spectacular explosions keep occurring in the binary star system named RS Ophiuchi. Every 20 years or so, the […]
Triple Transit and Mutual Events
These three panels feature the Solar System’s ruling gas giant Jupiter on August 15 as seen from Cebu […]
Three Perseid Nights
Frames from a camera that spent three moonless nights under the stars create this composite night skyscape. They […]