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Giant black holes can launch jets that extend for tens of thousand of light-years, blasting clean out of their host galaxies. These jets can last for tens of millions of years. Recently astronomers have spotted the first...

The galaxy NGC 1052-DF4 surprised scientists by having almost no dark matter to complement its stellar population. Recently a team of astronomers has provided an explanation: a nearby galaxy has stripped NGC 1052-DF4 of ...

Black holes shorn of event horizons could lurk throughout the universe.

My Dad’s a pretty good woodworker, and recently completed a wooden table that looks surprisingly like Jupiter, Great Red Spot, atmospheric bands and all. Here’s the original table from a bit of a side angle: And here...

Consumption and disintegration. Next time you want to be the life of the party--if you’re hanging out with cool nerds that is--just drop that phrase into the conversation. And when they look at you quizzically, just sa...

Students from across the nation will have an opportunity this week to hear from NASA astronaut Victor Glover aboard the International Space Station.

NASA and researchers from around the world will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Dec. 1-17, held virtually this year.

An international team of Astronomers from the Cosmostatistics Initiative (COIN) identified nearly 120,000 new young stellar objects (YSOs) based on data from the Infrared Array Camera of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. T...

Planetary system formation is a process that involves astounding and complex forces.  Humans have only just started trying to understand what goes on in this extraordinarily important phase of the development of new wor...

All hands have to be on deck if the world is going to tackle degradation, and one of the biggest emitters is also one of the least well known – international shipping. A 2018 study estimated that pollution emitted from...

A Chinese probe sent to the Moon to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades successfully landed on Tuesday, Beijing's space agency said.

Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.

Early this morning, the 900-ton instrument platform suspended above the Arecibo Observatory collapsed and crashed down on the iconic telescope's giant dish. The collapse occurred at about 7:55 a.m. local time, officially...

The ambitious mission is the first effort since 1976 to bring lunar material back to Earth --

The almost 300 laws that make up Hammurabi's Code show us what daily life was like more than 3,500 years ago.

Curry recalls his 18-year "Star Trek" odyssey captured in Titan's new coffee table volume

Image: All eyes remain on the giant A-68A iceberg on its journey across the Southern Ocean. This image shows A-68A's movements over the past 15 days using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 missions.

The hanging structure crashed through Arecibo's dish after major cable failures --

China has landed on the moon again -- and this time the country plans to bring home some souvenirs.

McDonald Observatory:

China's Chang'e-5 has successfully landed on the moon in a major step towards obtaining the youngest lunar samples so far collected and delivering them to Earth. SpaceNews

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