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Best Marvel movies, ranked
Not all superheroes films were created equal… discover the best Marvel movies of all time and see if your favorites made our top 15 ranked list
Alpha particles and alpha radiation: Explained
Alpha particles, also known as alpha radiation, are the star players in the game of alpha decay — here's everything you need to know.
Watch Rocket Lab catch a falling booster with a helicopter (video)
Rocket Lab has given us new views of its epic booster snag earlier this month.
Milky Way vs M87: EHT photos show 2 very different supermassive black holes
Three years after the first-ever image of a black hole, scientists have done it again — this time, closer to home, and of a very different invisible behemoth.
SpaceX to launch Starlink satellites, land rocket Friday: Watch live
SpaceX plans to launch another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites and land a rocket on a ship at sea on Friday (May 13), and you can watch the action live.
Watch Boeing's Starliner capsule meet its rocket ahead of crucial test flight (video)
Starliner is set to launch May 19 on OFT-2, an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station.
Amalthea: Jupiter’s unusual inner moon
Learn about Jupiter’s weird inner moon Amalthea. It was not only the fifth Jovian satellite to be discovered, but it is also the fifth-largest.
Gaia – ESA’s billion star surveyer
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ESA’s Gaia space telescope revolutionises our understanding of the Milky Way. It scans the sky to measure the position, movement, distance, and characteristics of billions of stars. It is creating the most precise map of our home galaxy yet, providing clues to its origin and evolution. Gaia not only studies the stars, but also what is in between them, as well as asteroids and planetary moons in our Solar System, binary stars and exoplanets, and quasars and galaxies outside of the Milky Way. Gaia provides us with a wealth of data, giving us a new sense of our place in the Universe.
Earth from Space: Arc de Triomphe
This striking, high-resolution image of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, was captured by Planet SkySat – a fleet of satellites that have just joined ESA’s Third Party Mission Programme in April 2022.
What’s the Right Depth to Search for Life on Icy Worlds?
Are we alone? Is there life beyond Earth? These are the questions that plague the very essence of science, and in particular, planetary science. Unfortunately, robotic exploration of exoplanetary systems currently remains out of reach due to the literal astronomical distances to get there. For context, our nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is 4.25 light years away, or a mind-blowing 40,208,000,000,000 km (25,000,000,000,000 miles) from Earth. Finding an intelligent civilization might be out of reach for now but searching for any forms of life beyond Earth is very much possible within the confines of our own solar system.
Colombia signs the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration
It's the 19th country to join NASA in the agreement, following quickly after Bahrain and Singapore in recent weeks.
Disney's new 'Lightyear' trailer for Buzz Lightyear's time-travel plot
The summer movie lineup heats up with this new trailer for Disney Pixar's "Lightyear."
'Avatar' will return to cinemas before sequel 'Avatar: The Way of Water'
The original "Avatar" blockbuster heads back to multiplexes this fall to prime fans for the Avatar sequel.
Watch the 1st trailer 'Avatar: The Way of Water' and explore Pandora's exotic reef
Disney has officially dropped the first trailer for director James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water."
Astronomers Unveil Image of the Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
Using a worldwide array of telescopes, the Event Horizon Telescope team has given us our first look at Sagittarius A*.
Astronomers Finally Catch a Nova Detonating on a White Dwarf as it's Happening
On July 7, 2020, the X-ray instrument eROSITA captured an astronomical event that – until then – had only been theorized and never seen. It saw the detonation of a nova on a white dwarf star, which produced a so-called fireball explosion of X-rays.
NOAA reveals first images from new weather satellite
GOES-18 full disk GeoColor image from May 5, 2022. This type of imagery combines data from multiple ABI channels to approximate what the human eye would see from space. Credit: NOAA
NOAA released the first imagery from the new GOES-18 weather satellite that launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral, and confirmed the spacecraft’s main camera doesn’t suffer the same cooling system problem that caused degraded vision in an earlier satellite.
The standard model of particle physics may be broken — an expert explains
We often talk about progress in terms of discovering new particles, and it often is. Studying a new, very heavy particle helps us view underlying physical processes – often without annoying background noise. That makes it easy to explain the value of the discovery to the public and politicians.
