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Space.com

DC Comics’ Scarlet Speedster the Flash could have some cosmic competition in the form of six newly discovered runaway stars racing through the Milky Way. Comments (0). a bright white star zooming through space. An illustration of a runaway star being …

Space.com

European scientists are developing an inflatable radio telescope concept that could do groundbreaking science on the moon. The idea, based on a recent feasibility study by engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA), proposes an array of radio …

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The Tianzhou 6 cargo spacecraft — packed with supplies, scientific experiments and propellant — then launched for Tiangong on May 11. The mission was a precursor to the arrival of the station’s next inhabitants.

The Washington Post

More than 4.5 billion years ago, Earth began forming from a blend of dust and gas that was around our young Sun. Eventually, it grew larger and larger until it became similar to the planet we live on today — a process scientists now say happened much …

CNN

Named Vectipelta barretti, it is the first armored dinosaur, or ankylosaur, to have been found on the island in 142 years, according to a statement from London’s Natural History Museum, where several of the researchers who discovered the dinosaur work.

Space.com

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are closing in on an explanation for why we live in a universe of matter and not antimatter. Matter and antimatter are two sides of the same coin. Every type of particle has an anti-particle, …

Scientific American

The probe will drop off a canister holding about a cup of pebbles and dust from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. “Bennu is a time capsule of the early solar system, and we …

The New York Times

Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, scientists discovered the presence of phosphates on icy Enceladus. Give this article. 52. Read in app. A view of the icy moon Enceladus, half cast in shadow, against a black.

Scientific American

Hi, and welcome to Cosmos, Quickly. This is Lee Billings. · And this is Carin Leong. · Carin, thanks for being here. · Hmm… · It’s not a good riddle, I admit. · Right, okay. · Right! · How do you only “kinda-sorta” see an ultra-luminous gigantic star?

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And a humble chemical element — phosphorus — played a key role in this arduous process by being a core ingredient in the building block of life like DNA and RNA molecules. It is, in fact, so …