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Multiple cameras captured the amazing footage. NASA NASA has revealed the moment its latest rover touched down on Mars like never before – with stunning footage capturing the thrilling descent to the surface. On Thursday, February 18, the U.S. space agency’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in Jezero Crater, beginning a multi-year search for life

This map made from the LOFAR survey shows supermassive black holes clustered in the Universe. The … [+] total map spans 740 square degrees, or about 2% of the sky, and has revealed over 25,000 black holes thus far. LOFAR LBA Sky Survey / ASTRON A large enough mass in a compact volume inevitably forms

A full moon rises over the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains and the skyline of downtown Los Angeles … [+] on Tuesday, Dec. 29,2020. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Each Monday I pick out the northern hemisphere’s celestial highlights (mid-northern latitudes) for the week ahead, but be sure

Seven poultry workers in Southern Russia were infected with the A(H5N8) strain of the bird flu, … [+] according to Anna Popova, the Head of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing and Russia’s Chief State Sanitary Physician. Here Popova (L) is seen talking to someone with a mask

Researchers report that the near-global success of invasive European starlings may be linked to rapid changes in gene expression patterns © Copyright by GrrlScientist | Forbes | Twitter An adult European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in breeding plumage. (Credit: Deepak Sundar / CC BY-SA … [+] 4.0) Deepak Sundar via a Creative Commons license European starlings are not

The Moon rises between the domes of St Basil’s Cathedral. A First Quarter Moon will be visible in … [+] the afternoon this coming week in the eastern daytime sky as its waxes towards being a “Full Snow Moon.” getty Get ready for “afternoon Moon” week! Where is the Moon today? Can we ever see

Artist’s conception of a Telesat Lightspeed satellite. Telesat In a universe increasingly crowded with satellites, Canada’s Telesat is getting ready to launch its own powerful competitor fleet to SpaceX, OneWeb and other companies. The company announced a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian province of Quebec that could see about $318 million USD ($400 million

A health worker prepares a syringe with Covishield, the Indian-made Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. ERIKA SANTELICES/AFP via Getty Images It’s been a bumpy road for a new Covid-19 vaccine developed by pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University. On February 15, the vaccine received an Emergency Use Listing designation from the World Health Organization, allowing it to begin

Venus and Jupiter along with the Moon over ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) observatory at Paranal, … [+] Chile. ESO/Y. Beletsky Have you ever seen a three-planet conjunction? The exquisite sight of three planets together in the night sky doesn’t happen very often. Aside from a few weeks ago, the last time there was a

Today’s Mars rovers (like Perseverance or Curiosity, pictured here) must work mostly on their own, … [+] but future missions could see direct control by astronauts. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The thrilling landing of Perseverance on Mars on Thursday (Feb. 18) heralded the beginning of a busy few months for controllers on Earth. Percy is too far away

Galaxies that have formed no new stars in billions of years and have no gas left inside them are … [+] considered ‘red-and-dead.’ A close look at NGC 1277, shown here, reveals that it may be the first such galaxy in our own cosmic backyard. Our galaxy will follow suit, and the stars will die

Ampaire has been test flying its hybrid electric powertrain in a Cessna 337 Skymaster, a unique … [+] twin-engine airplane with a “push-pull” configuration. Courtesy of Ampaire Among the welter of electric aircraft startups aiming to change how we get around in the air, Ampaire has stood out for a seemingly near-term practical approach, working

getty A new study commissioned by Plugable, an American computer peripheral manufacturer and resource for workspace essentials, found that scrolling through social media, shopping online, binging Netflix, and taking non-essentials trips outside of the home were the four most common bad habits people have adopted since beginning a full-time work-from-home routine as a result of

Dr. Gladys West is inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame during a … [+] ceremony in her honor at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. in 2018. West was an unheralded but vital figure, whose contributions enabled the existence of today’s GPS network. Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs

PORTO, PORTUGAL – FEBRUARY 11: healthcare workers work with a patient in the Covid-19 intensive … [+] care unit (ICU) at Hospital Universitario de São João, on February 11, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by Octavio Passos/Getty Images) Getty Images More than 50% of patients who were hospitalized with severe Covid-19 were found to have

The illustration represents a reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly … [+] mammoth, based on the genetic knowledge we now have from the Adycha mammoth. Beth Zaiken/Centre for Palaeogenetics A groundbreaking discovery has allowed scientists to go further back in time using DNA than ever before by almost a million years. An

Artist’s impression of the still-hypothetical Planet Nine as an ice giant eclipsing the central … [+] Milky Way, with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS USERS TOMRUEN, NAGUALDESIGN Despite all the advances that have occurred in human history, one extraordinary puzzle still

The Hubble Space Telescope found a handful of black holes in a distant collection of stars. NASA, ESA, T. Brown, S. Casertano, and J. Anderson (STScI) One of the world’s most famous telescopes went searching for a single black hole, and unexpectedly found a bunch of smaller black holes instead. The strange find is producing

Artist’s impression of the NASA InSight lander on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech While the world will be watching the Perseverance rover alight on Mars Thursday (Feb. 18), let’s not forget the ongoing adventures of another NASA Mars mission bravely carrying on amid dust, cold and technical issues. The InSight lander touched down on Mars in 2018 to

Avi Loeb, at left, and Jill Tarter, right, had a heated exchange on February 12, 2021, where Avi … [+] Loeb’s toxic behavior was on full display, creating an embarrassment for many of the organizations he’s associated with. Jemal Countess/Getty Images (L); SETI Institute (R) One of the most fascinating questions in all of science