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Oh yeah. Another great awards ceremony, another opportunity to choose nominations! The 2020 Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and as usual there were a number of surprises (some positive, some negative). And, of course, there were many people who were left out of the party. So let’s get rid …

This story is part of Welcome to mars, our series exploring the red planet. NASA Perseverance Rover It’s all packed up and ready to head to Mars on Thursday, July 30. NASA will stream the event live as the car-sized rover takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in …

Observation of a large solar flare on September 10, 2017 in extreme ultraviolet (grayscale background, by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory) and microwaves (red to blue indicate increasing frequencies, observed by the Owens Valley solar matrix expanded). The light orange curves are selected magnetic field lines from the corresponding theoretical …

Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya, both studying in tenth grade, were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which they named HLV2514. The girls, from the city of Surat in western India’s Gujarat state, were participating in a Space India and NASA project, which allows students to …

Photo Credit: Office of Public Extension of the Space Telescope Science Institute Of Popular Mechanics NASA has released a new image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope captured the image of Saturn for the Legacy Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project on July 4. Hubble has been operating …