A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime around itself.
This effect is known as frame-dragging, or the Lense-Thirring…
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Holidays in Space: 25 Years of Space Station Celebrations
In the quarter century that humans have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, astronauts and visitors from around the world have celebrated countless holidays more than 250 miles above Earth while traveling 17,500 miles per…
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10 times the sky amazed us in 2025
What was your skywatching highlight of 2025? A comet becoming visible to the naked eye? Mars disappearing behind the moon? Or did you glimpse a “blood moon” total lunar eclipse and see the northern lights at last?
Here’s what happened in the…
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Stunning photos of vibrantly visible Milky Way from Florida, US in 2025
The Milky Way, our home galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars, was bright and vibrantly visible from Florida earlier in 2025.
Earth sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA.
While the Milky…
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Decoding cnidarian cell type gene regulation
Musser, J. M. et al. Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution. Science 374, 717–723 (2021).
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Uncertainties in the phylogeny and biogeography of cave crickets
KIM24 initially sampled a total of 109 ingroup taxa and 3 outgroup taxa for their phylogenetic analysis2. However, in their divergence time estimation using MrBayes 3.2.62, a program limitation restricted the retention of only a single outgroup2….
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Simulation Unveils Truth of Black Hole Dynamics
After decades of steady progress, computational astrophysicists have reached a major turning point in black hole research. A new study presents the most detailed and complete model yet of luminous black hole accretion, the process by…
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Earthworms can help tackle microplastics in soils
With the widespread use of plastic products, a large amount of microplastics have entered soil ecosystems, leading to a continuous decline in soil environmental quality and posing unknown risks to both the environment and human health.
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There’s a side of the Moon we never see from Earth. Scientists think they’ve worked out why it’s so strange
Contrary to what Pink Floyd say, there is no dark side of the Moon. The Moon rotates on its axis once every orbit around Earth, and so, like us, experiences day and night periods (albeit very protracted).
But this tidal locking does mean that one…
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This simulation reveals what really happens near black holes
After decades of steady progress, computational astrophysicists have reached a major turning point in black hole research. A new study presents the most detailed and complete model yet of luminous black hole accretion, the process by which black…
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