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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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How the fastest spacecraft ever reached 165,000 miles per hour
As NASA explains: "During the Earth flyby, called a gravity assist, Juno steals a tiny bit of [Eart…
Meghan Bartels
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An astronomer at Japan's space agency is making simple animations that reveal the surprising physics of the solar system
As a scientist at both NASA and JAXA, James O'Donoghue has studied the planets. In his free time, h…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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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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'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…
Jason Guerrasio
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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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NASA's Perseverance rover is preparing to drop a helicopter from its belly and watch it fly on Mars
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is set to lift off from the Martian surface in April. It will be a "Wri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Black hole or a neutron star — NASA puzzled over strange bright lights in the 'Fireworks' galaxy
The irony is that the observatory wasn’t really looking for either of them. The primar…
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Watch NASA attempt to fly the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars for the first time
NASA's Mars helicopter is set to make spaceflight history. But "there's a lot of things that could …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Here’s what’s special about India’s Cartosat-3 launch tomorrow
India is all set to launch its third generation ‘eye in the sky’ Cartosat-3, from the Satish Dhaw…
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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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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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NASA's Mars helicopter just snapped its first color photo of the red planet. It's expected to fly on Monday.
After NASA's Ingenuity helicopter separated from the Perseverance rover on Mars, it took a photo. O…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Here's What The 'Polar Vortex' That's Hitting The US Actually Is
The spinning winds typically trap this cold air in the Arctic. But the problem comes when the polar…
Lauren F Friedman
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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…