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X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light.

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has quietly crossed a threshold that turns a long‑planned mission into a near‑term ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

The 417-day-long experiment, known as LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), looked at the light signatures released as particles collide with ...

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How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...

It’s time for one of the strongest meteor showers of the year. The Geminids peak this weekend and are visible through mid-December, according to the American Meteor Society.