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XRISM has uncovered how galaxy clusters evolve—violent mergers create turbulence, preventing hot gas from cooling. This ...

Pioneering Wanda Díaz-Merced turns space data into sound, allowing visually impaired people to experience events such as black holes and sunbursts ...

To move the technology forward, scientists at Stanford are trying to come up with more accurate measurements, for how much greenhouse gas is really being stored and how long the biochar lasts.

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Quaise Energy has been dazzling us lately with its bleeding-edge plans to tap super-deep, superheated steam as a global power ...

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...

For decades, the U.S. has led the race to clean, limitless nuclear fusion energy. Now China is catching up, spending twice as ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be completely tilted relative to its galaxy’s structure. This discovery, hidden for ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...