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July 21, 2020

28 'cocooned' black holes found hiding in plain sight

More than two dozen missing "cocooned" black holes have been rediscovered, after researchers took a new look at X-ray maps of the sky. All of these singularities had been misclassified as distant galaxies or other types of black holes.

July 20, 2020

NEOWISE comet spotted over Windsor Castle in incredible photo

Just days after a photographer captured the comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge, another photographer snapped an image of the celestial body over another iconic U.K. site, Windsor Castle.

July 20, 2020

UAE makes Mars launch, sends Hope orbiter to the Red Planet

The United Arab Emirates launched a historic mission to Mars from an island off the coast of Japan Sunday.

July 18, 2020

China moves rocket into place for upcoming Mars mission

China has moved a rocket into position to launch a rover to Mars in one of three upcoming missions to the red planet, one from the U.S. and another by the United Arab Emirates.

July 17, 2020

UAE set for historic Mars mission as it preps Hope orbiter for launch

The United Arab Emirates is set to launch a historic mission to Mars from an island off the coast of Japan.

July 17, 2020

A man digs up boulder in his garden, not realizing that it was a historic meteorite

A rock discovered in a garden in Germany has been confirmed as the largest stony meteorite ever found in the country.

July 17, 2020

NASA's James Webb Telescope delayed partly because of coronavirus pandemic

Nearly four months after NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ the coronavirus pandemic could potentially "impact on our missions," the space agency announced it was delaying the launch of the long-awaited James Webb Telescope.

July 16, 2020

NASA scientist held as a political prisoner in Turkey is freed, reflects on his US freedoms

American NASA scientist Serkan Golge, 40, returned to his Texas, home earlier this month after years in a Turkish prison cell in what U.S. officials had long deemed an example of Ankara taking political prisoners.

July 16, 2020

Sun gets close-up in historic new NASA pictures

NASA has released the closest-ever pictures of the sun, which were captured by the agency's Solar Orbiter.

July 16, 2020

Are UFOs a threat? We need to investigate, says former head of secret US program

There's no denying that America has an enduring fascination with unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. However, UFO interest extends far beyond the U.S. — sightings are reported worldwide, and multiple observations in far-flung locations describe aerial objects that are uncannily similar to each other, Luis Elizondo, former head of a top-secret U.S. government agency tasked with investigating UFOs, recently told Live Science.