The jet blasting out of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87 Jan…
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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?
Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What…
Did a star blow up and hit Earth 10 million years ago?
A supernova could have sent cosmic rays hurtling at Earth muratart/Shutterstock An exploding star may have…
Sagittarius A*: We finally found the hot wind coming out of our black hole
Molecular gas and X-ray emission around Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s black hole Mark D. Gorski…
How faster-than-light explosions could reveal the universe’s secrets
Getty Images/amana images RF Here is a thought experiment for you: imagine shining a powerful laser…
Venus has lava tubes, and they’re weird
We are learning more about Venus, the hot, high-pressure planet JSC/NASA We now know for sure…
Asteroid exploded ‘similar to a bomb’ over France in a rare event
An asteroid has fragmented in an unexpected way Wikimedia/CC-BY-SA-4.0 An asteroid exploded over France two years…
Lunar missions may contaminate the moon with hardy Earth microbes
Satellite image of the lunar south pole and Schrödinger basin NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The moon might…
Alien: Earth adds surprisingly good TV dimension to veteran sci-fi
Wendy (Sydney Chandler) is a hybrid, a new creation in the Alien universe Patrick Brown/FX Alien:…
Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth’s today
Modern Mars barely has an atmosphere NASA/JPL/USGS Mars’s atmosphere may have once been hundreds of times…