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But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...
New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...
Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S. This week, researchers discovered a cool new fish and named it after Darth ...
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...
It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...
In A Nutshell New theoretical models predict “dark dwarfs” — objects powered by dark matter annihilation. These cosmic bodies would shine steadily near the galactic center for billions of years. They ...
A comet is hurtling into our solar system from interstellar space at about 152,000 miles per hour. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, was discovered by the ...
New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...
"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...
Seven projects led by McMaster faculty and staff members are receiving grants for the creation and integration of free, high quality open textbooks and course . . .
Next week, the skies over Morgantown will be filled with balloons carrying tiny satellites aloft in a brand new summer camp ...