Dr. Sarah Adams

How NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its 1st close encounter with the sun

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Dr. Sarah Adams

An animation of a cube-shaped spacecraft with two rectangular wing-like solar panels passing in front of the sun. OSIRIS-APEX emerged “unscathed” from ...

Devastating Outburst Could Be a Whole New Kind of Volcanic Eruption : ScienceAlert

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The famous eruption that shot fountains of lava high into the sky on the island of Hawaiʻi in 2018 is teaching scientists ...

Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense ‘birthing nests’

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Researchers have discovered that elusive intermediate-mass black holes could form in dense star clusters containing anywhere between tens of thousands to millions ...

James Webb telescope discovers the 2 earliest galaxies in the known universe — and 1 is shockingly big

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done it again.  According to new research, astronomers using the powerful infrared telescope have revealed ...

New dinosaur species discovered in Zimbabwe named Musankwa sanyatiensis

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Researchers say the remains date back to the Late Triassic period. May 30, 2024, 9:24 PM ET • 4 min read A ...

Boeing’s Starliner rolls out to pad for June 1 astronaut launch (photos)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Boeing’s Starliner capsule is back at the launch pad. Starliner and its rocket ride, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V, rolled ...

James Webb Space Telescope spots the 2 earliest galaxies ever seen (image)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, continuing ...

Dinosaur hunter stumbles across million-dollar find

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Matthew Sherman Mr Cooper’s discovery reassembled in New York The first stegosaurus skeleton to go under the hammer is set to fetch ...

Space debris from SpaceX Dragon capsule crashed in the North Carolina mountains. I had to go see it (video)

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Spaceflight doesn’t typically come to mind when one thinks of North Carolina’s serene, verdant mountains. It’s true that, in the early 1960s, ...

Social butterfly: Behind the “Kevin Bacon” gene that could determines how popular a bug is

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Dr. Sarah Adams

Science has a term for how popular you are among your network of friends and family. That is, how much you set ...