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Mars sample return: Could Red Planet life contaminate Earth?

The robotic return of pristine samples from the surface of Mars has been a holy grail goal of Red Planet investigators for many, many years. Over that time, strategies for returning Mars collectibles have ...

Behold! Milky Way's monster black hole imaged for the 1st time.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The image, which was taken in the light of submillimeter radio waves, confirms that there is a black hole in the heart of ...

1st image of supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy revealed

"With the (Event Horizon Telescope or EHT) image, we have zoomed in a thousand times closer than these orbits, where the gravity grows a million times stronger. At this close range, the black hole accelerates matter to close to the speed of light and bends ...

Watch Boeing's Starliner capsule meet its rocket ahead of crucial test flight (video)

Boeing's Starliner capsule took a drive by some historical launch sites earlier this month on its path to the pad. Starliner, which passed its flight readiness review on Wednesday (May 11) to attempt a new uncrewed test flight to the International ...

Milky Way vs M87: Event Horizon Telescope photos show 2 very different monster black holes

Three years ago, scientists used a telescope the size of Earth to produce the first-ever image of a black hole. Now, they've done it again — this time, closer to home, and of a very different invisible behemoth. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has ...

Tonga volcanic eruption was the most powerful in more than a century

The volcanic eruption on an island near Tonga in January was as powerful as the 1883 Krakatoa eruption in Indonesia, one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events on record. Scientists have begun to piece together ...

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New black hole image: 4 things we know

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On Thursday, May 12, 2022, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team of astronomers presented the 1st direct image taken of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive central black hole, Sagittarius A*, aka Sgr A* (pronounced Sajj-a-star).

NASA managers clear Boeing's Starliner for second try to reach space station

NASA officials cleared Boeing's Starliner crew capsule for launch next week in a flight readiness review Wednesday, moving a step closer toward a critical unpiloted demonstration flight to attempt docking at the International Space Station and check ...

NOAA reveals first images from new weather satellite

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 ...

Plants have been grown in lunar soil for the 1st time ever

(CNN) In a landmark first, scientists have grown plants in lunar soil using samples collected during the Apollo missions to the moon. This is the first time plants have been sprouted and grown on Earth in soil from another celestial body.