This is SS 433, a microquasar first discovered forty years ago and located about 18,000…
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A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s…
The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the center of our…
Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an…
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The most complete skull of a duck-billed dinosaur from Big Bend National Park, Texas, is…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed an unexpected thin disc of material…
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a way to vastly accelerate single-cell sequencing, an advance…
Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of…
As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found…
Einstein’s theory of General Relativity is world-famous – but it might not be the only…
Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes headed for a collision. Each…
Damage from two strong earthquakes that rattled Southern California on July 4 and July 5…
Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of…
In any conventional silicon-based solar cell, there is an absolute limit on overall efficiency, based…