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Space.com

A fleet of space telescopes unexpectedly detected the record-breaking gamma-ray burst GRB221009A onOct.9, sparking concern among spacecraft operators about the blast’s odd signal. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia galaxy mapper sent a strange …

Florida Today

NASA has committed to buying more Orion spacecraft, the Artemis program capsules designed to take astronauts to the moon, under a multibillion-dollar agreement with contractor Lockheed Martin. Both entities …

Smithsonian

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus looked up into the night sky and charted the precise locations of as many stars and other celestial objects as he could see. But historians have always believed his so-called star catalog was …

Nature.com

To constrain the equation of state of cold dense matter, astrophysical measurements are essential. These are mostly based on observations of neutron stars in the X-ray band, and, more recently, also on gravitational wave observations.

Science News

Protons might be stretchier than they should be. The subatomic particles are built of smaller particles called quarks, which are bound together by a powerful interaction known as the strong force. New experiments seem to show that the quarks respond …

CNET

But it’s especially present in our pursuit of alien life. First of all, we have an essentially infinite universe upon which to point our telescopes in an attempt to find extraterrestrial beings, and second, we …

CNET

First of all, we have an essentially infinite universe upon which to point our telescopes in an attempt to find extraterrestrial beings, and second, we’re only familiar with life as we know it. Of course, aliens could be exactly like us.

Nature.com

Two Palaeolithic genomes from Britain provide the oldest currently available genetic data from the region and appear to map on to wider European patterns of genetic ancestry and associated archaeology. However, with sparse samples and wide temporal …

Laboratory Equipment

Key Points: Multispectral imaging has revealed new evidence for ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus’ lost Star Catalog. The results confirm that the Star Catalog was originally composed in equatorial coordinates. The findings are the most authoritative …

UCF

Using delay-Doppler radar observations collected from the observatory between December 2017 and December 2019, the study includes 191 asteroids’ radar cross sections and Doppler-frequency broadening. This data can be used as clues to …