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The mystery of how and when the Grand Canyon formed gets a new clue

A photographer snapped a bright-green fireball streaking across the starry sky above an iconic castle and famous Viking raid site in northeast England, after a meteor spectacularly broke apart upon entering Earth’s atmosphere.

On Monday (April…

Behold! This is the largest, sharpest 3D map of the universe yet

The Lyrid meteor shower has begun! Here’s what to expect as the shooting star display brightens the spring night sky, when it peaks and how to know if you’ve spotted a Lyrid, or a sporadic meteor!

Lyrid meteors are visible each year as Earth…

NASA’s SPHEREx mission has made a groundbreaking discovery in one of the Milky Way’s most active star-forming regions, Cygnus X. Using its advanced infrared capabilities, SPHEREx has mapped water ice in unprecedented detail. The Cygnus X…

Physicists have just dropped a new precise measurement for gravity.

The newly published value for the strength of gravity, known as “G” or “Big G”, is significantly smaller than some previous measurements, researchers report…

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein’s life was shaped by the forces of history. She studied organic chemistry at the University of Vienna in the 1920s and then left her home country of Hungary during World War II, before German troops invaded during World…

A pristine star found to be devoid of almost any elements heavier than hydrogen and helium might be the immediate descendent of one of the first stars in the universe.

If stars were like myths, then the first generation of stars to have existed…

Shortly before his death, the physicist Richard Feynman inscribed these legendary words onto a blackboard: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

AI researchers have really taken this idea to heart. Since it kicked off…