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“This is analogous to how traffic jams form on a ring road. When cars travel slower, it causes more dense traffic; if cars travel faster, the traffic is more spread out.” Comments (0). A purple sphere surrounded by alternating white and blue bands and …

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Gathering observations of a black-hole-powered quasar when the universe was less than a billion years old was an “emotional rollercoaster” for researchers. Comments (1). A swirling orange and red disc with a black sphere at its center with a widing.

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graphic illustration showing a fiery solar flare from the sun and earth in the foreground. Comparing the number of solar flares against past solar cycles is more complicated than you might think.

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That wasn’t an acceptable situation for European space officials, who don’t want to be dependent on SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 and other foreign rockets to loft their big payloads. So they’ve been eagerly awaiting today’s launch.

CNN

About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what’s now Morocco preserved some of the most complete specimens ever found of buglike sea creatures called trilobites, revealing anatomical details that scientists had never seen …

Space.com

The inaugural launch of Europe’s new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket is today, and you can watch it live. The four-hour launch window opens at 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) today, July 9. Ariane 6 will lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and …

Space.com

A blurry teal colored gas ring in black space features three bright shining orange orbs at. Gravitational lensing from an elliptical galaxy creates an arc with three bright spots on the top representing a …

CNN

The eyed needle — a sewing tool made of bones, antlers or ivory that first appeared around 40,000 years ago in southern Siberia — might be hiding important clues about the beginnings of fashion, a new study has found.

BBC News

Europe’s big new rocket, Ariane-6, is set to make its inaugural flight later. The vehicle will launch out of French Guiana on a demonstration mission to put a clutch of satellites in orbit. Developed at a cost of €4bn (£3.4bn), Ariane-6 is intended to …

The New York Times

The European Space Agency has waited about a decade for the first launch of Ariane 6, a powerful new rocket. But the brand-new vehicle is at last ready to fly — and if all goes well, European nations will once again have independent access to the final …