The North Star is much heavier than previously thought
The star marking true north is a good deal heavier than we thought. The North Star is 5.1 times as […]
Space
The historic ‘Wow!’ signal may finally have a source. Sorry, it’s not aliens
One of the most compelling potential signs of extraterrestrial communication might have an astrophysical explanation. Called the “Wow!” signal, the
The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a horde of lightweights
Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most
A distant quasar may be zapping all galaxies around itself
One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies
Scientists want to send endangered species to the moon
As more and more species near extinction, scientists have been collecting samples from animals, plants and other creatures and storing
Scientists are getting serious about UFOs. Here’s why
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Moonquakes are much more common than thought, Apollo data suggest
A new look at decades-old data from the Apollo missions has uncovered evidence of tens of thousands of previously unrecognized
We may finally know the source of the mysterious high-energy neutrinos
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A medium-mass black hole has been spotted for the first time in our galaxy
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Sulfur was the key to the first water on Earth
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