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Supergiant star Betelgeuse smaller, closer than first thought
It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery explosion, according to a new study by an...
Now you see it, now you don’t: Hidden colours discovered by...
Scientists in Australia have stumbled across an unusual way to observe color that had previously gone unnoticed.
To create the effect, researchers attached a very...
Earth just had its hottest September on record
Unprecedented heat around the world vaulted September 2020 to the hottest September since 1880, according to scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.
The...
The recipe for powerful quasar jets
Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why.
Using data from NASA's...
Astrophysics team lights the way for more accurate model of the...
Light from distant galaxies reveals important information about the nature of the universe and allows scientists to develop high-precision models of the history, evolution...
The spin of the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way
Once a black hole forms, its intense gravitational field produces a surface beyond which even light cannot escape, and it appears black to outsiders....
Recent Atlantic ocean warming unprecedented in nearly 3,000 years
Taking advantage of unique properties of sediments from the bottom of Sawtooth Lake in the Canadian High Arctic, climate scientists have extended the record...
Researchers synthesize room temperature superconducting material
Compressing simple molecular solids with hydrogen at extremely high pressures, University of Rochester engineers and physicists have, for the first time, created material that...
The mountains of Pluto are snowcapped, but not for the same...
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape...
The deep sea is slowly warming
New research reveals temperatures in the deep sea fluctuate more than scientists previously thought and a warming trend is now detectable at the bottom...
Fuels, not fire weather, control carbon emissions in boreal forest
As climate warming stokes longer fire seasons and more severe fires in the North American boreal forest, being able to calculate how much carbon...
