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Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption
Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma “rain” in the sun’s corona using adaptive optics.
Look closely at the spots to tell leopards from jaguars: there’s a subtle clue.
A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2020.
Invisible radiation leaking out of private satellites, like SpaceX’s Starlink spacecraft, is disrupting radio astronomers’ ability to detect important signals from across the universe. If
First theorized in 1938, heat’s wave-like flow through superfluids, known as “second sound”, has proven difficult to directly observe. Now, a new technique has finally
A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon’s far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the
Great eared nightjars live on the forest floor, remaining motionless throughout the day, camouflaged among leaf litter and tree stumps.
A type of hydrogen that doesn’t interact with light could explain how long neutrons live and reveal the identity of the universe’s dark matter, according
The nuclei of atoms are often portrayed as round in textbooks, but it turns out they’re rarely spherical.
When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced new COVID recommendations this week, it raised questions among clinicians and patients: Will those
Berly McCoy and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about a hawk’s clever hunting strategy, contacts that allow wearers to see infrared light, and how
A study offers a glimpse of how the brain turns experience into emotion. In mice and humans, puffs of air to the eye caused persistent
See the stunning timelapse captured by photographer Aaron Watson showing ghostly airglow ripples pass through the Colorado sky.
