Astronomers have seen asteroids colliding around a distant star for the first time.
These catastrophic collisions round the nearby star system were seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The star in question is Fomalhaut, and Hubble was able to give…
The start of the new year’s celestial show has begun, as the…
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Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.
Single-celled algae in the ocean known as coccolithophores play an important role in the marine carbon cycle when they take up bicarbonate from seawater to build their shells. Coccolithophore numbers have been…
RNA, which is one of life’s most crucial molecules dealing with the synthesis of proteins, could be common in the universe, according to a new experiment that shows how RNA could easily have formed on Earth 4.3 billion years ago.
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With a whopping 272 of them scattered across the city, London certainly isn’t lacking in the Tube station…
Not all bats pose the same risk for spreading dangerous viruses to humans. A new global study finds that only a small fraction of bat lineages consistently host viruses with the highest epidemic potential.
By analyzing data from nearly 900 mammal…