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1st image from NASA's new IXPE X-ray telescope looks like a ball of purple lightning

NASA's newly-launched X-ray hunting probe has snapped its first science image and — wow — it's spectacular. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) probe launched Dec. 9, 2021, on a mission to observe objects like black holes and neutron stars in ...

Celebrate Perseverance rover's 1-year 'Marsiversary' with these events

The space agency and mission team members are holding a variety of events around the country to mark the "Marsiversary" of the life-hunting, sample-caching Perseverance and the tiny helicopter Ingenuity, which touched down with the rover on Feb. 18, 2021.

February's snow moon will light up the sky

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) Point your cameras toward the sky as February's full moon, nicknamed the snow moon, will make its ...

Earth is warming too quickly for these tiny organisms

Thousands of species of tiny plantlike organisms may evolve too slowly to keep up with Earth's changes as the climate crisis continues, according to new research. These tiny organisms are algae, something you likely picture floating as a green film on top ...

Space junk piece set to hit the moon is likely from a Chinese rocket, not SpaceX

NPR

NPR

Independent astronomer Bill Gray, who first identified that this piece of junk would hit the moon, posted a correction on his website Project Pluto on Saturday. He first started tracking this particular piece of junk in March 2015, around one month after ...

4-story rogue wave that randomly appeared in the Pacific Ocean is the 'most extreme' ever detected

A four-story-tall rogue wave that briefly reared up in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada in 2020 was the "most extreme" version of the freaky phenomenon ever recorded, scientists now say. Rogue waves, also known as freak or killer waves, ...

What are the largest impact craters on Earth?

In most cases, any space rock remnant that makes it through the atmosphere will cause little or no damage if it reaches the ground. "The atmosphere protects us from impacts," at ...

How forgotten species go extinct twice

New research involving researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology, published today in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, explores the phenomenon of societal extinction. Societal extinction is the loss of species from ...

Strong magnets put new twist on phonons: Research reveals unexpected influence on compound's crystal lattice

Experiments revealed the material's phononic magnetic circular dichroism, a phenomenon by which left-handed magnetic fields excite right-handed phonons and vice versa, under relatively low (9 Tesla) magnetic fields. (By comparison, a refrigerator magnet is ...

NASA reveals first images from its new X-ray mission

The Verge

The Verge

On Monday, NASA released the first science images from its new Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE. A look at the Cassiopeia A supernova — the bright remnants of a star that exploded in space in the 17th century — the image provides a first ...