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NASA Astronaut Jim Lovell, who guided the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth in 1970, has died aged 97. Nasa said he “turned a potential tragedy into a success” after an attempt to land on the Moon was aborted due to an explosion onboard the spacecraft while it was hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth. Tens of millions …

Earth’s skies are about to be graced by a full Moon, plump and shining in the sky, swimming across a lake of stars like a giant sturgeon. Okay, maybe not, but the full Moon that will rise on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 August is called the full Sturgeon Moon, the old US Farmer’s Almanac name for the Moon for …

A red-footed booby hones in on a flying fish. Scientists attached minuscule cameras to two red-footed boobies, which recorded footage of the seabirds hunting a shoal of flying fish in the Indian Ocean. The birds live on a remote archipelago and were following the fish that can make powerful leaps out of the water. The camera caught the boobies plucking …

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The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near the upper limit predicted by our cosmological models, leaving astronomers with burning questions surrounding the relationship between black holes and their galaxy hosts.  In a paper published August 7 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers announced the discovery of …

In 2010, Jim Lovell explored his Apollo 8 spacecraft at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. M. Spencer Green/AP hide caption toggle caption M. Spencer Green/AP Jim Lovell, an astronaut best known as the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13, has died. He was 97. NASA announced his death Friday and included this statement from his family: “We …

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A tidy textbook definition of life has never existed, yet most biology lessons still lean on the idea that living things must grow, make energy, and reproduce on their own. That simple checklist leaves viruses outside the club, since their genetic shells activate only inside another organism and go dormant again when drifting alone. Ryo Harada of Dalhousie …

There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, however, been slowly moving and is on course for New York in the next 15 million years. This hot rock blob, called the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, or …

Astronaut Jim Lovell, best known as the commander of the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission to the moon, died Thursday in Illinois. He was 97. Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights: Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13. In a statement released Friday, the Lovell family highlighted his “amazing life and career accomplishments” and his “legendary leadership in …