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What's different about NASA's new plan for space station deliveries?NASA awarded to the contract for delivering cargo to the International Space Station to three companies, including Sierra Nevada, which has not contracted with NASA before but promises the capability of a touchdown landing and a reusable rocket.
First LookA new prime number with a staggering, 22 million digits sets recordA professor at a Missouri university has found the largest prime number known to humankind.
Stephen Hawking warns of mankind wiping itself out: where to find hope?Stephen Hawking spoke of a multitude of manmade threats encircling the planet in a recent BBC lecture. But how real are the risks, and what hope is there of mitigation?
First LookNASA films cascading magnetic arches on our sun. What is that?The video looks a bit like swirling molten gold. And it's mesmerizing.
Why does SpaceX keep trying to land rockets on floating barges?The latest SpaceX attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket on a drone barge resulted in an explosion. The company continues to use drone barges, despite having demonstrated a successful ground-based landing, mainly because of physics.
Astronomers befuddled by mysterious flickering starAfter a star's strange flickering and dimming behavior was recently observed, scientists have been trying to explain it. They are still looking for a feasible explanation.聽
First LookHow geckos might show there's no such thing as SpidermanScientists studied 225 climbing animal species and found that geckos may be the largest animals capable of scaling vertical, smooth walls.
How erupting underwater volcanoes ended 'Snowball Earth' and gave rise to lifeA new study has found that a period of rapid warming that gave rise to animal life may have been accelerated by deep-sea volcanoes.
Why are these sea turtles flying south for the winter?Warm December weather meant hundreds of sea turtles along the US east coast were caught in cold winter weather. So a network of aquariums, biologists, and volunteers in Boston and in North Carolina have been moving them south.
Temperatures rising: How humanity's heat output affecting our oceansScientists have found that the amount of man-made heat absorbed by the world鈥檚 oceans has doubled over the last 18 years, causing water temperatures to rise and more heat to be trapped across Earth's climate.
First LookCosmic quintet: Five bright planets to align in a rare celestial treatIn a rare alignment, all five planets in our solar system that are visible to the naked eye will appear in the sky together later this month.
First LookHow did 'Snowball Earth' end? Scientists blame underwater volcanos.Researchers say explosive underwater volcanos may explain the end of the most severe ice age known on Earth and paved the way for life as we know it.
Your home may host 100 different 'quiet and benign' bugs, scientists sayIn an unprecedented analysis of arthropod biodiversity inside the human home, a group of entomologists found that there are on average about 100 different species of bugs in every house.聽
First LookThe oceans are heating up more rapidly than we thought. Why that matters.The deep ocean has warmed as much in the past two decades as it did in the previous 100 years, researchers found.
First LookZinnias bloom on space station: What does it take to grow plants in space?Space gardening, says NASA, is critical to future space exploration.
Oceans absorb twice as much heat as in 1997, scientists sayThe world's oceans absorb more than 90 percent of the heat energy from global warming. And the amount of heat absorbed has doubled in under 20 years, according to a new study.
Five faces, one worm: Scientists uncover genetic oddityResearchers have identified several species of nematode that can develop different mouths based on their respective environments 鈥� all without changing their genetic code.
First LookSpaceX rocket crashes on landing: What went wrong?The Falcon 9 rocket successfully dropped a satellite into orbit Sunday, but tipped over and exploded into pieces when it tried to land on a floating barge聽in choppy seas about 200 miles west of San Diego.- SpaceX sea landing failure. Elon Musk explainsSunday evening, Elon Musk posted a video of the moment SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket landed on a floating ocean barge, toppled over and exploded into pieces.
Can cosmic particles in pyramids solve the mystery of how they were built?Researchers will try a technology used to peer inside volcanoes to find hidden chambers in pyramids.