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September 6, 2018

Faster than light? Neutron-star merger shot out a jet with seemingly impossible speed

The dramatic neutron-star merger that astronomers spotted last year generated a jet of material that seemed to move at four times the speed of light, a new study reports.

September 6, 2018

Chuck Yeager weighs in on 'First Man' controversy

Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier, weighed in on the controversy surrounding the upcoming Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man" and filmmakers' decision not to show the planting of the American flag on the Moon during the historic 1969 lunar landing.

September 5, 2018

Supernovas that made the stars may have left traces in meteorites

Meteorites may hold new clues about the supernova explosions from which the stars and planets of our solar system formed.

September 5, 2018

Saturn has another weird hexagon, puzzling scientists

A bizarre, hexagon-shaped vortex has formed above Saturn's north pole as the planet's northern hemisphere enters summer, data from the international Cassini-Huygens mission revealed. The unusual vortex is circulating hundreds of kilometers above the clouds in the stratosphere layer of the ringed planet's atmosphere, a new study reported.

September 5, 2018

Was young, wet Mars once close enough to the Sun to 'dance' with Venus?

Billions of years ago, liquid water flowed across the Martian surface.

September 5, 2018

The US Geological Survey is getting serious about space resources and mining

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is starting to earnestly evaluate space resources for future mining.

September 4, 2018

Russia: Hole in space station was likely act of sabotage

The hole discovered in Russia’s International Space Station last week was likely deliberately drilled to destroy the mission, space agency officials said Tuesday.

September 4, 2018

Planet Nine and six other baffling space mysteries scientists can't explain

Planet Nine is a huge alien world roughly four times the size of Earth that continues to evade astronomers – but it's not the only space mystery that has experts baffled.

September 4, 2018

Planet Nine may exist, but it might be hiding behind Neptune

Evidence for Planet Nine continues to mount, but there may be a good reason why scientists have yet to find it – it may be hiding.

September 4, 2018

Planet Nine: Ancient tapestries, texts may help expose the Solar System's biggest mystery

That there is something lurking in the interstellar murk beyond Neptune is almost certain. Exactly what it is and where it is, we’re not so sure. If it truly is the elusive Planet Nine — the theorized planet lurking undiscovered in our solar system — it may take another thousand years before it swings back into view.