Very bright meteor, known as a fireball, was captured on doorbell cameras across the country...
A NASA satellite orbiting the earth taking pictures has spotted something that has scientists stumped in Siberia’s cold Arctic reaches in Russia. Near the Markha River in Siberia, the earth h…...
A quasar is an extremely bright and distant point-like source visible to radio telescopes. The source is a so-called Active Galactic Nucleus, fueled by a supermassive black hole....
Did you miss the “snow moon” last night? There’s still two more chances to catch the sight. The second full moon of the year, named the…...
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A recent study finds that the first black hole ever discovered is a lot bigger than scientists first thought. The black hole, Cygnus X-1, was discovered in 1964. It is well-known for being the object of a friendly bet between two famous scientists....
Comet Comes in from the Cold and Finds an Off-Ramp on Its Sunward Journey Long road trips can be tedious and boring. That's why many road travelers break up their arduous journey by making rest stops along the way. Astronomers found that at least one roaming …...
The universe is expanding, and it expands a little faster all the time. Scientists call the speeding up of this expansion cosmic acceleration. This growth increases the distance between points in the universe, just like stretching a rubber sheet would make po…...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured a stunning photo of Venus during its flyby en route to the Sun—but there's something in it that has scientists excited....
Astra has won a NASA contract to launch a small constellation of Earth science cubesats, while General Atomics selected Rocket Lab to launch a NOAA payload....
64 Human Genomes Sequenced Will Serve as New Reference for Genetic Variation and Predisposition to Human Diseases Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) co-authored a study, published today in the journal Science, that details th…...
Scientists can't agree on why these hills in the Russian Arctic ripple with stripes....
By the time humans arrived on the scene, dinosaurs had long vanished from the face of the Earth....
Space freaks me out, y'all....
Waves and creases along the banks of Siberia's Markha River appear to look more like stripes in recently published images, yet it remains unknown if the geological......
Having dominated the planet's surface for hundreds of millions of years, dinosaur diversity came to a dramatic conclusion some 66 million years ago at the hot end of an asteroid impact with what is today Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula....
Lightning strikes that we see here on the surface are only one kind of storm phenomenon, and others happen in places we can’t see from the ground. Lightning also produces incredible sights in the space above the clouds, extending into the atmosphere in color…...
How a single cell slime mold makes smart decisions without a central nervous system. Having a memory of past events enables us to make smarter decisions about the future. Researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) and …...
Astra, the Alameda-based space launch startup that recently announced its intent to go public via a SPAC merger, has secured a contract to deliver six cube satellites to space on behalf of NASA. Astra stands to be paid $7.95 million by the agency for fulfilme…...
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