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Happy Birthday to astronaut Mae Jemison, first African-American woman in space, seen here aboard the Shuttle Endeavour, September 1992. She was born October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama.(National Archives)
Astronomers have charted the largest-ever volume of the universe with a new map of active supermassive black holes living at the centers of galaxies. Called quasars, the gas-gobbling black holes are, ironically, some of...
For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of shock waves rippling along strands of the cosmic web — the enormous tangle of galaxies, gas and dark matter that fills the observable universe.
Combining...
Speaking in front of a capacity crowd at the 67th International Astronomical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, SpaceX founder, CEO and chief designer, Elon Musk, boldly unveiled his futuristic plans for sending humans to Mars.
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Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
The high-density binders used to develop hard carbon electrodes in the study significantly improved the stability and rate capability of sodium-ion batteries, paving the...