NASA's TESS mission aims to find exoplanets like Earth and Venus and other top stories.

• NASA's TESS mission aims to find exoplanets like Earth and Venus

  

  NASA’s TESS mission aims to find exoplanets like Earth and Venus In the face of the fast-paced, and often dangerous, changes that Earth is going through, NASA goes an extra mile in searching the universe for planets outside the Solar System and hopefully find one that is much like this world. By Shannon Azares | Oct 08, 2016 04:09 AM EDT A hand out image made available by the European Southern Observatory on August 24 2016, shows an artist's impression of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red ..

  >> view original



• Apes might be able to tell what you're thinking

  

  All these very human behaviors rely on an ability psychologists call theory of mind: We are able to think about others' thoughts and emotions. We form ideas about what beliefs and feelings are held in the minds of others -- and recognize that they can be different from our own. Theory of mind is at the heart of everything social that makes us human. Without it, we'd have a much harder time interpreting -- and probably predicting -- others' behavior.For a long time, many researchers have believed..

  >> view original



• This week in space: Boeing challenges Musk, Bezos to a 'Mars-off'

  

  There’s a new, private space race on. Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg means to ride his dark horse straight to Mars, beating NASA, Elon Musk, and everybody else to the Red Planet. Bloomberg reports that Muilenberg, speaking at the Atlantic’s “What’s Next” conference in Chicago, said he’s “convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket.”But Jeff Bezos doesn’t mean to be outdone. Blue Origin ran a successful test of its New Shepard crew escape pod this week,..

  >> view original



• The One Big Thing Paul Krugman Wants Trump And Clinton To Debate

  

  Paul Krugman is calling on moderators of the two remaining presidential debates to press the candidates on global warming. In his Friday column in The New York Times, the Nobel prize-winning economist said climate change “should be a central issue in this campaign” and failing to push the issue would be “criminally irresponsible.”  “It’s time to end the blackout on climate change as an issue,” Krugman wrote. “It needs to be front and center — and questions must be accompanied by real-time fact-c..

  >> view original



• Physicists explore exotic states of matter inspired by Nobel-winning research

  

  Nandini Trivedi, The Ohio State University The 2016 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, three theoretical physicists whose research used the unexpected mathematical lens of topology to investigate phases of matter and the transitions between them. Topology is a branch of mathematics that deals with understanding shapes of objects; it’s interested in “invariants” that don’t change when a shape is deformed, like the number of holes an..

  >> view original



• Hubble sees star shooting 'cannonballs' into space

  

  PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of large plasma 'cannonballs' being ejected from the vicinity of V Hydrae, a bloated red giant located 1,200 light-years from Earth. Researchers believe the hurled blobs of plasma may explain the formation of planetary nebulae. Hubble data suggests the cannonballs are roughly twice the size of Mars and travel at speeds fast enough to span the distance between Earth and the moon in just 30 minutes. A single blob ..

  >> view original



• NASA Spaceport Weathers Hurricane Matthew as Satellite Reveals Double Eyewall

  

  A double eyewall structure captured of Hurricane #Matthew at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) on Oct. 6, 2016 by the Global Precipitation Measurement mission core satellite. Credit: NASA MSFC/SPoRT Powerful Hurricane Matthew has left NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in its wake, and the venerable spaceport is still standing. Matthew passed offshore of KSC (which lies on central Florida's Atlantic coast, just east of Orlando), apparently sparing the site a direct hit, NASA officials wrote in an..

  >> view original

Sundar Pichai explains why Google is focusing hard on India .	Le'Veon Bell on pass-catching prowess; worries about JJ Watt? .
Police car responding to call hits pedestrian near downtown ... .	Moscow to Microsoft: We're ditching Outlook, Exchange on 600000 machines .