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Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...

Newcastle University students have created artworks for the new annual winter event Enchanted City. They have worked with ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

Building block for a better understanding of the universe - New insights into the fundamental force of “strong interaction” - Publication in the leading journal Nature Another long-standing mystery in ...

Up to 150 Geminid meteors may brighten the night sky each hour as the shower hits its peak on Dec. 13-14, according to the ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Learn how new high-resolution images of two nova eruptions offer fresh insight into how these stellar explosions release ...

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