Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there’s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit. Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

However, earlier this month, General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS), in collaboration with NASA, achieved an important milestone on the road to using NTP rockets. At NASA's Marshall ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years ...

Of all Earth’s layers, the inner core is the most remote and mysterious. This solid sphere of iron and nickel is about 70% the size of the moon ... obliterated as our sun expands into a red ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core.

President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Pam Bondi was confirmed in a 54-46 Senate vote on Tuesday evening. Bondi takes control of a Justice Department that has purged prosecutors who ...

On Monday, the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, issued a memo to prosecutors at Manhattan ordering that they dismiss the corruption case. The president ‘believes that the bureaucracy of it ...

In perhaps the least surprising news of this month, the California High-Speed Rail Inspector General concluded that the project was unlikely to commence service between Merced and Bakersfield in ...

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