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April 11, 2019

Physicists scramble to understand the extreme crystals hiding inside giant, alien planets

Deep in the heart of alien worlds, crystals form under pressures up to 40 million times more intense than the atmospheric pressure on Earth, and as much as 10 times more intense than the pressure in our planet's core.

April 11, 2019

Katie Bouman is the 29-year-old scientist behind first image of black hole

Katie Bouman reacted modestly to her sudden celebrity status this week, but the scientist whose graduate school work helped lead to the first real image of a black hole Wednesday, is getting her due.

April 10, 2019

First-ever black hole image revealed

Scientists have released the first ever image of a black hole, revealing the distant object in stunning detail.

April 10, 2019

The Sun is spitting out 'lava lamp blobs' 500 times the size of Earth

The sun's corona constantly breathes wispy strings of hot, charged particles into space — a phenomenon we call the solar wind .

April 9, 2019

NASA launches student rocket challenge

Nearly three dozen student teams from colleges, universities, high schools and some middle schools from around the country flocked to Huntsville, Ala., the location of the Marshall Space Flight Center, so their rockets could take flight.

April 9, 2019

Jupiter's poles shown heating up in incredible NASA images

NASA's JPL has released images of the gas giant showing the impact that solar winds are having on the planet's poles, which are causing a hotter atmosphere than previously thought.

April 9, 2019

The ISS is chock-full of bacteria and fungi: study

It turns out astronauts aren’t alone on the International Space Station.

April 9, 2019

SEE IT: Large meteor explodes over industrial Russian town

A meteor exploded while traveling over the skies of a Russian province on Saturday, creating a sound that some residents compared to a plane.

April 8, 2019

Iron volcanoes may have erupted on metal asteroids, study says

A new study suggests that volcanoes made up of iron may

April 8, 2019

Self-driving spacecraft may save Earth from doomsday

Judging by the valuations of companies such as Waymo, Lyft and Uber, humanity is placing a big bet on self-driving cars as the future of transportation. But the future of humanity may rest on the laurels of self-driving spacecraft.