Black hole collisions explained by new simulations of OJ 287 system
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Researchers at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and their collaborators have used…
It’s bound to happen at a summer picnic, a peaceful walk in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard… a mosquito targets your blood for its next meal. You’ve been bitten.
But how do mosquitoes find you?
Among several methods used to…
A fossil braincase and partial skull roof from Carnegie Museum of Natural History has been reassessed and reclassified, giving rise to a new genus and species of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur: Athenar bermani.
Holotypic braincase of Athenar…
For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building slowed down, oxygen levels were low,…
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have created the large-scale maps of carbon monoxide (CO)-dark molecular gas for the star-forming complex Cygnus X.
These images show the location of CO-dark molecular gas in Cygnus X. Image…
We’ve reached the First Quarter Moon tonight, meaning we’re halfway between the New Moon and the Full. Keep reading to find out what this means.
As of Wednesday, Oct….
A hot mystery on the sun may be close to being solved.
For decades, scientists have been trying to understand why the sun‘s outer atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, despite being farther from the core. Whereas the surface, or…
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