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Buried oceans, like the one that sinks beneath the icy surface of Planet Pluto can be extremely common across the cosmos. The gas insulating layer may preserve the ocean from Pluto's liquid water from freezing. says a new study. And something like that could happen under the surface of the frigid worlds in other solar systems as team members said. …

SpaceX plans to release its delayed Starlink mission on orbit on May 23rd. Igor Golovniov / SOPA Images / LightRocket ElX Musk's SpaceX announced a new release date for its mission Starlink with take-off now due on May 23rd. The launch was delayed last week due to strong wind. The mission will be launched this Thursday by Pad 40 in …

A new definition of kilogram went into effect today. No longer is the kilogram defined by Le Grand K, and a 140-year-old weight under glass in a secret location near Paris. Now, it is determined by the Planck constant, based on Max Planck's theory that "electromagnetic energy at a given frequency could only be emitted in discrete quantities, or quanta, …

Researchers have noticed a "weakly-organized hole" on the upper layer of the Sun's atmosphere, known as the corona, which allows a stream of particles to escape into space. "Cosmic weather forecasting site Space Weather stated:" Solar winds flowing from a weakly-organized hole "This will cause geomagnetic unrest, but probably not geomagnetic storms, on May 21st to 23rd." As Earth is …

Planet Nine is a theoretical world hiding somewhere in the space beyond the Kuiper Belt at the far end of the solar system. Believed to be the ninth planet from Sun, no one has ever seen Planet Nine, but the planet is theorized to be 10 times larger than Earth. An unseen planet this big would explain why some Kuiper …

Click to enlarge / A blue moon platform built by Blue Origin with the top of a climbing vehicle (built by another company). About two months ago, when Vice President Mike Pens directed NASA to return to the Moon by 2024, space engineers are working to develop a plan that uses existing technology, major projects approaching completion, and Last week …

Daisy, which looks like a giant bug, is part of a robot science project inside Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) group. Since last summer, scientists at FAIR have been helping robots teach themselves how to walk and grasp objects. The goal is for them to learn in a way that is similar to how people gain these skills: by exploring …

The NASA New Horizons team published the first image of the farthest world that had ever been explored – a planetary block and the Kuiper Belt object was pushed into the new year 2019 by Ultima Thule, which looks like a person in deep meditation. Called "2014 MU69," the subject-detailed of which was published in the May 17 issue of …

Worrying ice losses are rapidly spreading into the Antarctic's interior, the latest satellite data analysis shows. A warming of the Southern Ocean has resulted in the Antarctic glaciers melting increasingly rapidly. And ice is now lost five times faster than in the 1990s The West Antarctic ice sheet was stable in 1992 but up to a quarter of its expanse …

Two years ago, the founder of Blue Origin Jeff Bezos – yes, the man who owns Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Made NASA a promise: Origin will partner with the space agency and build a rocket – and a lunar creek – to build this base. The missile in question is New Glenn, which is currently being developed, with plans to …