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The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final…

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Astronomers have spotted a monster-sized planet that could be up to ten times the size of Jupiter emerging from the stellar fog surrounding a young star.

Prior observations of the roughly 13 million-year-old star MP Mus (also known as PDS 66)…

It was the scariest choking incident David Palumbo had ever seen.

The 88-year-old man had been dining at a Providence, Rhode Island, Italian restaurant in September 2019. Now he was unconscious, with a piece of bread lodged in his windpipe….

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe nearly four decades…

Sometime early in the history of life on Earth, a meteor at least 1 kilometer wide came screaming through the atmosphere and slammed into what is now Western Australia. The impact likely unleashed a cataclysm — a fireball estimated to be more…

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Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments…

NASA has announced the selection of three innovative scientific instruments that will be vital to the Artemis mission, specifically for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV), a key part of NASA’s lunar exploration plans. These instruments, designed…