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On Jan. 18, 2016, the GRIPS balloon team sent their instrument soaring towards the stratosphere above Antarctica, suspended underneath a helium-filled, football-field sized scientific balloon....

The term "black holes" was first used in the mid-20th century by theoretical physicist John Wheeler. This term denotes relativistic supermassive objects that are invisible in all electromagnetic waves, but a great number...

Regular readers know that when it comes to science, my two loves are astronomy and geology. That love is multiplied when they come together. ... like in the photo above, a six-panel mosaic taken by master photographer Ro...

Photo of the blizzard attacking the east coast of the United States taken from the International Space Station....