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Science • Jun 04

Astronomers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about the Milky Way’s black hole

At the heart of our home galaxy lurks a gigantic black hole that's more than a trillion times heavier than Earth, with all that mass stuffed into a region...

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Science • Jun 04

NASA's dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It's not the only probe in the Mars morgue

NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here's the fate that awaits the probe.

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Science • Jun 04

NASA reveals new findings about meteor that exploded over Massachusetts

NASA said in an update Wednesday that their findings suggest this was an iron meteorite. More on the latest update from the space agency below.

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Science • Jun 04

Evidence Earth’s Closest Exoplanets Have Enormous Magnetic Fields Revives Prospects For Life On Proxima b

The spectrum produced by Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, has been interpreted as indicating the planets Proxima b and d both have magnetic...

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Science • Jun 04

Huge Kraken-like Octopus may have ruled the seas 72 million years ago

A new study finds a giant octopus may have prowled the seas 72 million years ago and may have been at the top of the food chain.

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Science • Jun 04

Quantum shell structure reveals new rule for proton-neutron pairing inside nuclei

Nuclear physicists used a little magic in their latest experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator...

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Science • Jun 04

Meteors are 'extremely common.' What makes the one over New England 'rare'?

A sonic boom shook Boston and the larger New England area with the force of 230 tons of TNT. The source came from outer space. The Saturday afternoon event...

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Science • Jun 04

In December 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe became the first spacecraft to transmit from another planet, sending 23 minutes of faint temperature data from Venus after a torn parachute tipped it onto its side and buried its signal in what engineers first dismisse

"content": "On 15 December 1970, a 500-kilogram titanium capsule shaped like a pressure cooker hit the surface of Venus at around 17 metres per second after...

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Science • Jun 04

This Clever New Engine Could Send Briefcase-Size Spacecraft to Mars

Engineers at MIT have developed a two-in-one propulsion system that can fuel both traditional chemical thrusters and electrical thrusters, combining speed...

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Science • Jun 04

Fossil reveals bizarre gliding creature that hunted birds 120 million years ago

A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what's now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about an unusual group of predatory dinosaurs known as...

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Science • Jun 04

Cosmic Tryst: Venus Meets Jupiter at Dusk

Don't miss the convergence of the two brightest planets at dusk in early June. It's a familiar annual question, that we're already hearing as we enter into...

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Science • Jun 04

Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water "conveyor belt" in the...

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Science • Jun 04

Milky Way black hole's missing wind finally found after a half-century-long search

The hunt is over. After more than 50 years of searching, astrophysicists at Northwestern University have finally discovered evidence of a powerful wind...

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Science • Jun 04

Even quiet black holes create winds, new Milky Way observations reveal

After 50 years of searching, astronomers have finally found evidence of a mild wind blowing from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

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Science • Jun 04

Trio of massive solar flares this week could produce Northern Lights across the US — here’s where to see them

A trio of intense solar flares burst forth from the Sun this week, knocking out power and raising the possibility of a Northern Lights show in several...

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Science • Jun 04

World’s biggest scorpions were the size of baseball bats

Giant scorpions the size of a baseball bat with pincers the size of a pencil once stalked what is now England and Wales. Praearcturus gigas is believed to...

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Science • Jun 04

“How Much Do You Know About Space?”: Test Your Knowledge With This 20-Question Astronomy Quiz

The universe is packed with mysteries, strange facts, and discoveries that sound too wild to be true. Some planets have days longer than years.

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Science • Jun 04

Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history

A team of researchers worked grueling, hot hours in the desert to understand the history of life in Earth's oceans after a major extinction event.

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Science • Jun 04

Vast astronaut mission kicks off commercial race to replace ISS

The race to replace the ageing International Space Station (ISS) is heating up after US company Vast announced a mission to fly an astronaut to its planned...

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Science • Jun 04

Vast astronaut mission kicks off commercial race to replace ISS

The race to replace the ageing International Space Station (ISS) is heating up after US company Vast announced a mission to fly an astronaut to its planned...

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