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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…
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Scientists at Harvard University have developed a way to vastly accelerate single-cell sequencing, an advance…
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As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found…
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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…
The galaxy NGC 1156 resembles a delicate cherry blossom tree flowering in springtime in this…
Two NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time, the detailed…
NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket…