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The Lyrid meteor shower peaks later this week. To learn more about meteor showers, I had an online chat with Matt Beaky. He's a physics professor at Juniata College. "A meteor shower happens when the Earth passes through a cloud of leftover dust and ...

(WOWT) - Below are today's vaccination updates as well as data reports on new cases and other COVID-19 stats reported by health officials across Nebraska and Iowa. Keep scrolling to find helpful links and other information, including phone numbers to call ...

Ingenuity takes flight on Mars in this NASA animation. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Ingenuity did it! On April 19, the NASA chopper took to the skies over Mars, hovering briefly above the surface before returning to land. But the feat, a turning point in otherworldly ...

This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser · SpaceX successfully launch internet satellites into orbit · Early risers spot Starlink satellites in Sydney's skies · SpaceX Starship prototype fails to land · Meteor lights up Miami sky · Virgin Galactic ...

Now researchers have found a whale species that typically migrates away from solid sea ice each autumn and returns every summer to feast on tiny crustaceans did not make the 6,000km (3,700-mile) roundtrip in 2018-2019.

(CNN) Tyrannosaurus rex was a fearsome predator, but it sure wasn't a particularly fast mover. In fact, most humans could easily keep up with the dinosaur without breaking a sweat. T. rex would have covered just under 3 miles in an hour -- a speed similar to ...

Date: April 19, 2021; Source: University of Maryland Baltimore County; Summary: New research shows that land use by human societies has reshaped ecology across most of Earth's land for at least 12,000 years. Researchers, from over a dozen institutions ...

Steve Jurczyk, NASA's acting administrator, said Tuesday that the draft version of an “implementing agreement” between NASA and Roscosmos is still being reviewed by the U.S. State Department. “We're waiting for ...

A new study finds a naturally occurring “earthquake gate” that decides which earthquakes are allowed to grow into magnitude 8 or greater. Sometimes, the “gate” stops earthquakes in the magnitude 7 range, while ones that pass through the gate grow to ...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swept in to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020, it left a noticeable mark. New images captured by the spacecraft after a close flyby of the asteroid ...

Engineered, autonomous machines combined with artificial intelligence have long been a staple of science fiction, and often in the role of villain like the Cylons in the "Battlestar Galactica" reboot, creatures composed of biological and engineered materials.

Researchers have developed new X-ray optics that can be used to harness extremely fast pulses in a package that is significantly smaller and lighter than conventional devices used to modulate X-rays. The new optics are based on microscopic chip-based ...

NASA may have been a bit blindsided this week when its partner, Russia's Roscosmos, revealed that it was going to decide whether or not it wanted to leave the ISS permanently. The space station has been co-operated by both the United States and Russia ...

Connecticut's daily COVID-19 positivity rate climbed to 3.46% on Tuesday. That was up from the 2.68% reported Monday. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Of the 21,338 test results reported ...

A new study indicates holes the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off, potential scaling up of qubits to a mini-quantum computer. Quantum computers are predicted to be much more powerful ...

The second test flight for Boeing's Starliner crew capsule, known as the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, won't lift off until late this summer. After months of delays, NASA and Boeing have pushed the launch from April to no earlier than August, citing ...

Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument held a unique set of fossils. Those fossils indicate tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators but social carnivores. Researchers also calculate about 2.5 billion individual T. rexes lived in ...

Now that NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its first test flight on the red planet, members of the agency's Southern California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory will prepare for the next stages of their mission. Following Monday's historic event, ...

According to NASA, Lyrids are one of the oldest known meteor showers, with the first reported sighting dating back to 687 BC. They are known for their "fast and bright meteors" and ...

The Ingenuity helicopter performed its first successful flight on Mars early Monday morning, marking the first time a powered aircraft has flown on another planet. It happened just after midnight, Earth time. The tiny helicopter got about 10 feet off the ground, ...