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An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

Supermassive black hole reactivates, emitting plasma jets New data sheds light on black hole’s unusual behavior since 2018 Potential white dwarf companion may explain black hole's activity ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

A remarkable black hole, located 270 million light-years away in the Draco constellation, has become the center of ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

When you’re young and carefree, a spur-of-the-moment tattoo feels like the ultimate form of self-expression. Years later, though, you might have a change of heart.

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

According to the research shared at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, the observed X-ray oscillations are believed to originate from a compact white ...

The bacterial cell wall is crucial to maintain viability. It has previously been suggested that Gram-positive bacteria have a periplasmic region between the cell membrane and peptidoglycan cell wall ...

Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every ...