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October 22, 2024
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Space.com

Despite their name, black holes are often surrounded by bright, radiating whirlpools of matter known as accretion disks — and, typically, the enormous gravity of a black hole can l draw in surrounding gas, or even stars, that send ultra-powerful jets …
Space.com

Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS proved to be photogenic as it lit up the early autumn skies of the Northern Hemisphere this month. Comments (0). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
Space.com

a blurry bright yellow splotch is auraed by an orange red hue. faintly around it. An illustration of a potential companion star orbiting the red giant star Betelgeuse. (Image …
BBC News

The space rock, which was 200 times the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, smashed into Earth when our planet was in its infancy three billion years ago. Carrying sledge hammers, scientists …
The New York Times

Yet while some early theropods and sauropods are known from 230-million-year-old Triassic rocks, there are “just a few scrappy, fragmentary road kill fossils” that could possibly — “if you squint”— be Triassic ornithischians, Dr. Brusatte said.
Space.com

A spectacular new video shows a set of SpaceX satellites ready to deploy into space. SpaceX’s in-space video shows a stacked group of Starlink satellites being revealed after two pieces of protective hardware, known as payload fairings, fall away from …
Phys.Org

These forces, which can arise from both internal and external sources, play crucial roles in regulating cellular processes such as migration, differentiation and tissue development. As a research team captivated by …
Phys.Org

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed a decades-old galaxy model, originally proposed by a University of Portsmouth Professor in 2005. The findings are published today in Nature Astronomy and resolve a long-standing …
Smithsonian

The breakthrough came from a discovery of two well-preserved juvenile Arthropleura fossils at Montceau-les-Mines, France, according to Live Science’s Sierra Bouchér. These specimens, which were each less than …
Livescience.com

A new NASA-led study suggests that photosynthetic microbes could thrive in hidden bubbles of meltwater below patches of ice on Mars. This could be one of the easiest places to search for extraterrestrial life “anywhere in the universe,” the team says.