• A heavy-metal planet orbiting a dead star may foretell our world's end

    A heavy-metal planet orbiting a dead star may foretell our world's end

    Apr 06, 2019 05:35 PM EST

    ... have come off this body. We’re left with this iron core orbiting around that has a high internal strength holding it together, not just gravity.” The white dwarf’s three-million-kilometer-wide debris disk was first discovered more than 15 years ago, making the star one of fewer ...

  • America's newest crew capsule rockets toward space station

    America's newest crew capsule rockets toward space station

    Mar 02, 2019 03:32 PM EST

    ... marvels at how the Dragon has just 30 buttons and touch screens, compared with the space shuttle cockpit's 2,000 switches and circuit breakers. https://youtu.be/l5I8jaMsHYk For the test , the Ripley dummy was strapped into the far left seat, wearing the company's snappy white spacesuit. The ...

  • Patriots owner Robert Kraft pleads not guilty to prostitution charges

    Patriots owner Robert Kraft pleads not guilty to prostitution charges

    Feb 28, 2019 07:11 PM EST

    ... Palm Beach County court on Wednesday. Kraft, 77, is requesting a non-jury trial. Kraft was among hundreds of men charged in a crackdown on massage parlor prostitution and an investigation into human trafficking at Florida spas. Ten spas have been closed and several people, mostly women originally from China ...

  • Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,′ dies at 94

    Stanley Donen, director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,′ dies at 94

    Feb 23, 2019 10:06 PM EST

    ... surreal. He was part of the unit behind such unforgettable scenes as Kelly dancing with an animated Jerry the mouse in “Anchors Aweigh,” Astaire’s gravity-defying spin across the ceiling in “Royal Wedding,” and, the all-time triumph, Kelly ecstatically splashing about as he performs the title number in ...

  • Nun, among few at Vatican abuse summit, blasts church for 'mediocrity, hypocrisy and complacency'

    Nun, among few at Vatican abuse summit, blasts church for 'mediocrity, hypocrisy and complacency'

    Feb 23, 2019 04:32 PM EST

    She called for discussion on a host of controversial issues to address the scandal, including lay participation in the selection of bishops, whether seminaries for young boys are really healthy and why elderly abusers aren’t dismissed from the clergy. https://twitter.com/EWTNVatican/status/1099285467462160384 Openibo also praised “Brother ...

  • WATCH: NASA’s Osiris-Rex reaches Bennu, in mission to bring home asteroid dust

    WATCH: NASA’s Osiris-Rex reaches Bennu, in mission to bring home asteroid dust

    Dec 03, 2018 03:40 PM EST

    ... asteroid before heading back to Earth. After launching in September 2016, Osiris-Rex spent a year orbiting the sun, and then used the Earth’s gravity to swing toward the so-called “near-Earth asteroid.” Bennu hails from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where it likely split from ...

  • AP fact check: Trump overstates his claims on the economy

    AP fact check: Trump overstates his claims on the economy

    Jul 27, 2018 02:07 PM EST

    ... more are retired, and weak productivity growth, which means that those who are working aren't increasing their output as quickly as in the past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHsHdKF2JfI President Donald Trump discussed trade in Granite City, Illnois, on Thursday. Watch his remarks in the player above ...

  • ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor, is just a comet

    ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor, is just a comet

    Jun 27, 2018 06:59 PM EST

    ... the sun’s steadily diminishing gravitational pull was acting on it. The strange push was small, about two million times weaker than the pull of gravity on Earth’s surface and about 1,000 times smaller than the effect of the sun’s gravity, Micheli said. Even so, over time ...

  • What Kilauea's eruption can reveal about volcanoes on other worlds—and possibly, alien life

    What Kilauea's eruption can reveal about volcanoes on other worlds—and possibly, alien life

    May 14, 2018 06:05 PM EST

    ... 374 miles across. Based on analysis of Mars’ surface, three key factors have allowed volcanoes there to grow so large: The red planet has less gravity, no tectonic movement and longer volcanic eruptions when compared to Earth. But many questions remain: What keeps the Martian lava from continuously piling up ...

  • Read Stephen Hawking's final theory on the Big Bang

    Read Stephen Hawking's final theory on the Big Bang

    May 03, 2018 07:46 PM EST

    ... re familiar with the first three dimensions -- length, height and depth -- and hopefully the fourth, time. But one of those strings dictates the presence of gravity. Remove it, and gravity no longer exists. Hawking and Hertog’s new theory plays off this idea, suggesting the world as we know it ...