The coronavirus pandemic is making life feel slower than ever, but observing timescales across the universe can bring us some comfort, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the solar system may have come here from a different star system

Extraterrestrial oceans are an obvious place to search for alien life, but getting there and having a look won't be easy, says NASA's Kevin Hand in his book Alien Oceans

New images reveal threads of ultra-hot gas woven throughout the sun's corona, in the most detailed look at previously unseen parts of the atmosphere of our closest star

The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all. Mathematicians think they can help, but their first attempts have thrown up some eye-popping conclusions

NASA has awarded $967 million to three space flight companies – Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX – to build lunar landers that will be part of the Artemis programme to send humans to the moon by 2024

Stars that are similar to the sun in every way we can measure are mostly more active than the sun, which hints that the sun’s activity may ramp up someday, risking solar eruptions

Weird blasts of radio waves from space called fast radio bursts have been baffling astronomers since they were discovered, but after finding one in our galaxy we may finally know what creates them

SpaceX’s first crewed launch is planned for 27 May and will be run from a mission control with desks set six feet apart to comply with social distancing protocols

From vintage satellites to lunar rovers, space archaeologist Alice Gorman is teasing out a unique history of humanity from the objects we've dispatched from Earth

China just tested its biggest rocket yet, along with a new capsule designed to carry humans to its planned space station, the moon and beyond

We’ve found a 200-metre cliff in Mars's Hellas basin, the first evidence of a river that flowed on the planet for more than 100,000 years

Astronomers found a star that appeared to be orbiting nothing at all – but it’s actually the closest black hole ever at just 1000 light years away

The leading hypothesis for how the moon formed involves a collision between a Mars-sized object and Earth that would have boiled away elements like carbon, making its discovery on the moon a mystery

Mercury is much denser than the other rocky planets in the solar system, and that may be because a collision vaporised its surface and the debris was blown away by the sun

About 80 per cent of stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge have relatively close encounters with another star, which can fling off any planets orbiting them

The Pulitzer Prize Board this week awarded its commentary award to The New York Times' Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay launching the "1619 Project." This will accelerate a trend already underway: subjecting schoolchildren to a curriculum that blames slavery on capitalism and whose creator believes socialism offers the best path to racial equity.

In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation sent relief money across the Atlantic to a starving Ireland - something the Irish, who lost more than a million people in a famine made worse by British indifference, have never forgotten. The Irish are now giving financial aid to Native American tribes hit with a pandemic that has been made worse by American incompetence.

After more than three long years, the Justice Department has finally lived up to its name by dropping charges against my former boss, former National Security Adviser and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. He should have never been prosecuted.

Will Flynn be the right wing's Nelson Mandela? Of course that's insulting - but so is this entire presidency

Earlier this week, a depressing economic prognosis linked on the Drudge Report concluded: "A whole lot more pain is on the way, and it is going to shake our nation to the core."

Michigan can and will recover from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic - but not if Joe Biden wins the presidential election this November. The former vice president's radical policy platform is destined to sabotage America's second economic comeback, dooming the Great Lakes State to a bleak future of perpetual economic stagnation.

If he can win the battle for our screens, he can benefit from the death of the traditional presidential campaign.

Megyn Kelly's exclusive sit down with Tara Reade

I was not surprised either that it took two-plus months for arrests to come of two men and murder charges in the case. This only after the GBI was rightly called in.

You may have noticed, as a mere citizen of this country, there are many things you are not supposed to know. You are not mature enough or intelligent enough to handle certain information. You are in, in effect, a child in a supposedly democratic republic.

The Trump-Russia collusion investigation was an elaborate and intentional hoax, staged by the most unscrupulous and power-mad political operatives this country has ever seen.

New labor economy data paints a fuller - and bleaker - picture of the economy.

The country faces the same problem today it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.

There is something deeply unsettling about the lionization of Andrew Cuomo and his handling of the epidemic, especially in the light of the raw statistics

The overlooked epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic is our nation's nursing homes, veterans' homes, and other long-term care facilities.

In light of the newly declassified documents, it is clear that understanding what happened in that January 5 Oval Office meeting is essential to understanding the corrupt operation against the Trump administration.

The Justice Department's move was the latest example of the attorney general's effort to chisel away at the special counsel investigation and emphasize an alternate narrative.

कानपुर में पकड़े गए तब्लीगी जमातियों पर पुलिस की कार्रवाई जारी है। पुलिस ने शहर के नौ जमातियों को गिरफ्तार किया। शुक्रवार को थाने से सभी को जमानत दे दी गई।

हैलट अस्पताल के कोविड अस्पताल में 24 घंटे के अंदर तीन और कोरोना संदिग्ध रोगियों की मौत हो गई। उनके नमूने जांच के लिए लैब भेजे गए हैं। शवों को बॉडी बैग में सील कर दिया गया है। रिपोर्ट आने के बाद कोरोना गाइडलाइन के तहत अंतिम संस्कार कराया जाएगा।

कोरोना वायरस देश भर में तेजी से पांव पसार रहा है। कोरोना मरीजों की संख्या लगातार बढ़ती ही जा रही है। कन्नौज जिले में शनिवार को एक और पॉजिटिव केस सामने आया है।

कोरोना वायरस देश भर में तेजी से पांव पसार रहा है। कोरोना मरीजों की संख्या लगातार बढ़ती ही जा रही है। शनिवार को जालौन जिले एक साथ 12 कोरोना मरीज बढ़ गए। इसमें एक पुलिसकर्मी भी संक्रमित है। 

ग्रीन जोन में चल रहे हमीरपुर जिले को झटका लगा है। यहां कोरोना ने दस्तक दे दी है।मुस्करा ब्लॉक क्षेत्र के चिल्ली गांव में एक युवक कोरोना पॉजिटिव निकला। युवक किडनी का इलाज कराने उरई मेडिकल कॉलेज जाता रहा है।

फर्रुखाबाद जिले में पहला कोरोना पॉजिटिव मामला सामने आया है। शमसाबाद कस्बा के मोहल्ला मीरादरवाजा निवासी युवक मुम्बई में एक शॉपिंग स्टोर में काम करता था। वह 7 मई को टेंपो से वापस आया था।

कानपुर में कोरोना संकट की शुरुआत से ही पॉजिटिव मरीजों की संख्या बताने में घालमेल चल रहा है। ये आंकड़े तीन स्तर से जारी हो रहे हैं। लेकिन इनमें कभी भी समानता नहीं होती। स्वास्थ्य विभाग भी आंकड़े स्पष्ट करने में कोताही बरतता आ रहा है।

चित्रकूट जिले में कई चरणों में कोरोना सैंपल की रिपोर्ट निगेटिव आने के बाद शनिवार देर शाम तीन मरीजों की रिपोर्ट कोरोना पॉजिटिव आने से प्रशासन और स्वास्थ्य विभाग में हड़कंप मच गया। चित्रकूट में भी कोरोना ने अपने पांव पसारने शुरु कर दिए हैं।

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This clay robot can squeeze and squish itself into different shapes

Get ready for the first scored event in DARPA's latest Grand Challenge

Roboticists share what they've learned so far from DARPA's Subterranean Challenge, and how they readied their bots for the next event—the Tunnel Circuit