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Simply put: Earth is spinning faster and here’s how it could impact your lives
If you feel like time is passing by at a faster pace, it is not just in your head! …
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The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning so fast, it's squishing space-time down like a football
The black hole, Sagittarius A* is located 26,000 light-years away from Earth, at the center of the …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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SIMPLY PUT: Earth is spinning faster and here’s how it could impact your lives
However, this wasn’t just a one-time fluke. Earth has been in a hurry in recent years. As pe…
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Ukrainians are testing out a jerry-rigged mine-clearing machine made from a farm vehicle with spinning metal chains
A humble excavator with spinning metal flails is Ukraine's latest trial in tackling the staggering …
Mia Jankowicz
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Asteroid gets caught changing colours for the very first time
Asteroid’s aren’t supposed to leave two trails of dust behind them — and neither were they supposed…
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Supermassive black hole bigger than 7 billion Suns is spinning so fast that it's close to breaking the laws of physics
Chandra’s X-ray data showed that M87 was spinning between 2.4 to 6.3 times faster than the speed of…
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Giant 'holes' dozens of times the size of our planet are appearing on the sun. Here's how they could affect Earth.
Two huge coronal holes have appeared on the sun this month, spewing 1.8 million mph solar winds tow…
Marianne Guenot
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How DeSantis can spin his bitter battle with Disney into a primary winner and how his enemies can use it against him, according to campaign pros
The Disney fight has high stakes for the Florida governor, who is expected to announce a presidenti…
Kimberly Leonard
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A mysterious object 1 billion light-years away is sending out a 'heartbeat' radio signal from deep space
Astronomers detected a pulse of radio waves, called a fast radio burst, in a faraway galaxy. The si…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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The Earth did not get its water from asteroids — it may have had it all along
The prevailing theory on how the Earth got its water is that the planet was born dry and water was …
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An incredible animation by a planetary scientist shows how fast each planet spins by putting them in one giant globe
As one commenter pointed out on Twitter, it can be weird to watch Africa and South America making t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers discovered a 'spooky' spinning object in our galactic backyard, emitting some of the strongest radio beams in the sky
Radio telescopes are detecting more mysterious signals. They switch on and off and don't match any …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid is about to whiz by Earth. When it returns in 8 years, it could cross paths with our satellites.
On Friday night, the asteroid Apophis will pass by Earth. When it returns in 2029, its orbit may pu…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA's Ingenuity team is planning to push the helicopter as fast and far as it will go - even if it crashes
The Ingenuity team aims to push the space drone to the extremes. They don't expect it to survive, t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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We live next to the largest gas cloud in the Milky Way — and it's giving birth to new stars
A new 3D map of the Milky Way reveals that we live next to the largest gas cloud in the galaxy. …
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A star set to explode in 2083 will be the brightest object in Earth's sky as it dies
Over the next few decades, the star will brighten rapidly. Around 2083, all of the mass from V Sagi…
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If Earth started rotating backwards, it might not be as catastrophic as it sounds
As a result, scientists estimate winter temperatures would drop by up to 10 degrees Celsius! In fac…
Gina Echevarria,Jordan Bowman
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The worst storms on Earth are nothing compared to the weather on other planets
And the weather on Jupiter isn't any better. Of course, there's the Great Red Spot. A hurricane-lik…
Gina Echevarria,Rebecca Wilkin
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A NASA spacecraft just landed on an asteroid to suck up rocky dust to bring back to Earth. Here's how the mission works.
NASA's Osiris-Rex could find ingredients for life on an asteroid that might crash into Earth. But t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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'Hobbs & Shaw' mixes 'Fast and Furious' with a buddy-cop movie, and could launch another lucrative franchise for Universal
To start the movie, we find Hobbs and Shaw on the opposite sides of the Atlantic going through thei…