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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the first direct evidence of a wandering supermassive black hole in action, tearing a star to shreds in a tidal disruption event (TDE) 600 million light-years away. This black…

Across the globe, there are human populations that have remained isolated for centuries, leading to genetic characteristics that are far from ordinary. These groups, cut off from the broader gene pool by geographic barriers or strict cultural…

A failed Soviet…

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Things are heating up hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, where a large undersea volcano is…

A recent image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) has captured a curious sight atop the Emi Koussi volcano, located in northern Chad, the highest peak in the Sahara Desert. The white patch visible at the summit initially suggests a…

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on the Red Planet. The surprise shift of focus comes less than a week after the…

Solar radiation storms happen when a large-scale magnetic eruption from the sun accelerates charged particles in the solar atmosphere to very high velocities. This can cause protons to get accelerated to large fractions of the speed of…

A Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 on a failed mission to Venus is believed to have crashed back onto Earth early on Saturday morning.

The European Space Agency, which was monitoring the craft’s uncontrolled descent, said it was last spotted by…