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Astronomers have found a massive black hole in a place they never expected to find one. The hole comes in at 17 billion solar masses, which makes it the second largest ever found. (The largest is 21 billion solar masses....

Nine months after a SpaceX rocket exploded on the way to the International Space Station, the California-based company is counting down to the launch Friday of another flight to resupply astronauts in orbit.

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The discovery of an object 17 billion times the sun's mass may mean many more such monsters are out there --

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This 360° panorama lets you explore the International Space Station's fifth module, Harmony....

Rosetta's comet has been seen changing color and brightness in front of the ESA orbiter's eyes, as the Sun's heat strips away the older surface to reveal fresher material....

How big and how bright is Planet 9 if it really exists? What is its temperature and which telescope could find it? These were the questions that Christoph Mordasini, professor at the University of Bern, and his PhD stude...

Tomorrow (April 8), SpaceX will attempt to launch a Dragon cargo spacecraft, carrying a bundle of awesome science experiments, toward the International Space Station.

Occurring about 110 year;s ago (Earth time) the blast that produced remnant G1.9+0.3 was likely triggered by a white dwarf merger, Chandra X-ray observers have found.

Applications are now open for U.S. colleges and universities to compete for free CubeSat rides on United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rockets....

"The newly discovered supersized black hole resides in the center of a massive elliptical galaxy, NGC 1600, located in a cosmic backwater, a small grouping of 20 or so galaxies," said lead discoverer Chung-Pei Ma, a Univ...

Neutron stars are the most extreme and fascinating objects known to exist in our universe: Such a star has a mass that is up to twice that of the sun but a radius of only a dozen kilometers: hence it...

An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered the Earth with radioactive debris. The explosions occurred when the Earth cooled an...

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(Phys.org)--A team of Japanese astronomers has recently discovered water ice at the surface of a distant star's disk. Using the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager (NICI) installed on the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, ...

For years, scientists have been hunting for the stable lava tubes that are believed to exist on the moon. A remnant from the moon's past, when it was still volcanically active, these underground channels could very well ...

Perhaps you've heard that there are a hundred billion galaxies in the Universe. That's a soul-crushing number, so vast and unreachable that it's literally hard to believe. Let me make a believer out of you. That photo ab...

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The first trailer for the movie reveals some of the pre-'Star Wars: A New Hope' story. The rebels who stole the 'Death Star' plans are the centerpiece of the film. Premieres on Dec. 16th, 2016.

Astrophysicists at the University of Bern have modelled the evolution of the putative planet in the outer solar system. They estimate that the object has a present-day radius equal to 3.7 Earth radii and a temperature of...

We're always talking about Pluto, or Saturn or Mars. But nobody ever seems to talk about Jupiter any more. Why is that? I mean, it's the largest planet in the solar system. 318 times the mass of the Earth has got to coun...