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When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk chose a remote Texas outpost on the Gulf Coast to develop his company’s ambitious Starship, he put the 400-foot rocket on a collision course with the commercial airline industry.

Each time SpaceX did a test run of…

A completely dark and mysterious body with the mass of 1 million suns and a possible black hole heart continues to baffle and intrigue astronomers despite further investigation.

This “mysterious disruptor” is located around 11 billion…

In 1981, a clay sculpture called the “Great Mother” was discovered in an ancient village in…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.

First up, if it feels like almost everyone you know either has the flu, is…

A vibrant display of glowing gases around a dead star is fueled by a mysterious source that scientists can’t explain, in a phenomenon without precedent.

As stars move through space, they push away material and create a…

A tiny chunk of dead star just 731 light-years away has presented astronomers with a shimmering puzzle: a powerful, glowing bow shock.

This wouldn’t be unusual under many circumstances, but in the case of the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838, there’s…

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I am older, and my computer skills are what would now be considered ‘limited’. Because graphic analysis and composition takes so much time with the software tools I…

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the Universe. If not, what does intelligent life look like? And how would aliens communicate?

The possibility of extraterrestrial life is grounded in…

A UK man who is thought to be Britain’s youngest dementia sufferer recently passed away from the disease at only 24 years old. Andre Yarham, from Norfolk in England, was just 22 when he was first diagnosed with dementia.

At the age of 24, most…