Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard ...
Just 1,600 light-years away, the black hole is the closest known to Earth. The good news: It’s dormant, […]
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It Looks Like a Shell, but an Octopus and 40,000 ...
Scientists are studying how the argonaut octopus evolved the ability to produce a floating shell-like structure to care […]
Dark Ball in Inverted Starfield
Does this strange dark ball look somehow familiar? If so, that might be because it is our Sun. […]
Lunar Eclipse at the South Pole
Last May 16 the Moon slid through Earth’s shadow, completely immersed in the planet’s dark umbra for about […]
China Lucks Out Again as Out-of-Control Rocket Booster Falls in ...
For the fourth time, the country’s space program used a 23-ton launcher that made an uncontrolled re-entry back […]
InSight’s Final Selfie
The Mars InSight lander returned its first image from the Red Planet’s flat, equatorial Elysium Planitia after a […]
‘This Is Our March 2020’: Children’s Hospitals Are Overwhelmed by ...
A drastic and unusually early spike in the respiratory infection is swamping pediatric units across the United States, […]
M33: The Triangulum Galaxy
The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel […]
A Partial Eclipse of an Active Sun
Watch for three things in this unusual eclipse video. First, watch for a big dark circle to approach […]
NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula
Why is the Lobster Nebula forming some of the most massive stars known? No one is yet sure. […]