An artist's impression of a fast-expanding supermassive black hole from far away. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab)Astronomers have detected the brightest and fastest-growing black ho… [+4360 chars]
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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will fly the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission no earlier than late this year. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots aboard the agencys Boei… [+4528 chars]
In the early hours of Sunday morning (June 19) the waning moon will pass within a thumbs width of asteroid Vesta in the east-southeastern sky. During this close approach, the pair will share the vi… [+2696 chars]
Astronomers observe comets to study their properties and trajectories to find out what they are made up of and also if they pose any threat to the Earth. However, this time, astronomers actually saw … [+2093 chars]
<li>Shetty SA, Hugenholtz F, Lahti L, Smidt H, de Vos WM. Intestinal microbiome landscaping: insight in community assemblage and implications for microbial modulation strategies. FEMS Microbiol Rev. … [+28560 chars]
Twenty seconds of scrubbing with soap is one of the best ways to protect yourself — and the people and things you touch — from disease-causing germs. But how exactly do soapy suds kill pathogenic bac… [+3455 chars]
A few years ago, deep beneath the Apennine Mountains in Italy, a team of physicists hunted for flashes of light that just might suggest human consciousness is the product of gravitational forces. Th… [+4086 chars]
This result may help explain how some pulsars are accelerated to such remarkably high speeds.The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour. This image fea… [+5254 chars]
To gain an edge over the US space agency NASA, Chinese scientists aim to develop a next-gen space observatory to search for dark matter. The ambitious project known as the Very Large Area gamma-ray S… [+4781 chars]
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SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket on a secretive mission in the early hours of Sunday morning. Liftoff is planned for 12:27 AM EDT (04:27 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral … [+10397 chars]
