The rotation of the Earth’s inner core may have stopped and may even be going into reverse, new research suggests. (Cigdem Simsek, Alamy) Estimated reading
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Billions of heavenly worlds captured by a survey of the Milky Way
Astronomers have released a new survey of the Milky Way, which includes 3.3 billion celestial objects. (NOIRLab) Estimated reading time: 2-3 minutes ATLANTA — A
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Russia sets new contingency plan for damaged space capsule
A stream of particles, which NASA says appears to be liquid and possibly cool, sprays from the Soyuz spacecraft on the International Station, during a
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NASA images showcase the eerie beauty of winter on Tuesday
Frozen ice on the ground left polygonal patterns on the Martian surface. (NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Arizona) Estimated reading time: 4-5 minutes ATLANTA — Mars
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Flushing toilet lidless could make you sick, investigators find
In a new experiment, scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder were able to visualize air particles, invisible to the naked eye, that were released
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A distant black hole is detected in an annihilating star
This artist’s impression illustrates how it looks when a star is too close to a black hole, where the star is being pulled out by
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Northern Taurid lightning can be seen all through November
A bright globe is seen above Brkini, Slovenia on November 12, 2015, during the Taurus constellation. This month, another examination is upon us with the
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A ‘cataclysmic’ celestial couple gone wrong – a star eats its mate
An artist’s illustration shows a white dwarf and a larger, sun-like star forming a “cataclysmic” binary system. (M.Weiss, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian via
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A 150 million-year-old vomitus in Utah offers a ‘rare glimpse’ into prehistoric ecosystems
A bowman returning a fish tries to sneak up on a frog swimming on the surface of the tank, while the other party regurgitates the
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A NASA scientist takes to the skies to search for the meteor’s origin
Estimated reading time: 1-2 minutes SALVATION LAKE – Weeks after meteorites streaked across Utah’s skies, people are still searching for debris, but one rock hunter
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