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The New York Times

Most every galaxy has a supermassive black hole millions of billions times more massive than the sun; scientists aren’t sure where they come from. Smaller black holes are thought to form from massive stars that have reached the ends of their thermonuclear …

Space.com

The latest International Space Station (ISS) shipment, coming courtesy of a Northrop Grumman robotic Cygnus cargo spacecraft, will blast off on the company’s Antares rocket no earlier than 5:50 a.m. EST (1050 GMT) on Sunday (Nov. 6) from the Mid-Atlantic …

CNET

Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068. NASA/ESA/A. van der Hoeven. About 47 million light-years from where you’re …

Mashable

Now, a new survey of space rocks in regions around the orbits of Venus and Mercury have spotted sizable asteroids in this elusive zone. One is nearly a mile wide, the type of “planet-killer” rock that would decimate life on Earth.

The Weather Channel

Lately, our Sun, Moon, and Earth seem to be amusing themselves by alternatively engaging in a game of hide and seek. On October 25, a Partial Solar Eclipse graced the skies when the Sun tried to hide behind the Moon. And now, the Moon prepares to hide …

CNET

Close-up photo from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover looks at the rover’s drill bit from. Perseverance’s mast-mounted camera system captured this view of its sample No. 14. NASA/JPL …

NPR

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London conducted an experiment in which they set up a container that allowed bees to travel from their nest to a feeding area. But along the way, the bees could opt to pass through a separate section with a …

Mashable

The story of an underwater volcano’s historic eruption keeps getting wilder. In January 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai blast in the South Pacific sent pressure waves around the planet, astonishing scientists. Months later, researchers learned the …

Space.com

Previously, scientists thought the origin of the Martian crust was relatively straightforward. Because the crust is uniformly basaltic (basalt is an igneous rock), it was theorized that its formation occurred when a planet-wide ocean of magma cooled.

Dark Reading

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) astronomical observatory in Chile became an unlikely target for a cyberattack this week when unknown assailants knocked its systems offline. The ALMA may not be a household name, but it has a marquee role on …