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Surprise! The ring around M87 galaxy's monster black hole wobbles over time.

The Event Horizon Telescope team is learning about the huge black hole's behavior over the past decade. Shares. Comments (0). The Event Horizon Telescope, a planet-scale array of ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration ...

The daring plan to save the Arctic ice with glass

The fear that action to combat climate change has been too slow has led some scientists to test unconventional methods to stem the loss of Arctic sea ice. O. One of the most important, yet underappreciated, features of the Arctic sea ice is the ability of its ...

Earth may get a new minimoon — but it may just be 1960s space junk

Every once in a while, orbital trajectories and fate's gravity conspire to let Earth briefly adopt a miniature moon to join us for a few measures of our planet's constant dance around the sun. Scientists rarely get to watch the process in action, but now they think ...

Is There Life on Venus? These Missions Could Find It

Scientific American

Scientific American

For decades, scientists have treated Venus as Earth's estranged sister gone bad. Once considered a promising planetary destination because of its near equivalence to our own world in size and mass, robotic scouts revealed Venus to be a pressure-cooked ...

Wee, single-celled creatures may chow down on viruses

Teeny, single-cell creatures floating in the ocean may be the first organisms ever confirmed to eat viruses. Scientists scooped up the organisms, known as protists, from the surface waters of the Gulf of Maine and the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of ...

A newly discovered asteroid will pass close to Earth on Thursday

CNN

CNN

Discovered only on September 18, in Tucson, Arizona, the school bus-sized asteroid which is estimated to be somewhere between 15-30 feet in diameter is expected to graze past our planets surface with about 13,000 miles of breathing room.

History-making black hole seen to do a shimmy

When scientists presented the first ever picture of a black hole last year, it was hailed as an extraordinary breakthrough. Well, now they've released some additional imagery that was acquired in the years running up to that historic snapshot. And it gives us ...

Controlling ultra-strong light-matter coupling at room temperature

Phys.Org

Phys.Org

Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultra-strong coupling between light and matter at room temperature. The discovery is of importance for fundamental ...

What could a space telescope just for solar system science do?

To date, planetary scientists have built spacecraft and astrophysicists have built space telescopes. But the time has come to change that, some solar system researchers say. Advertisement. Astrophysics space telescopes, particularly the venerable Hubble ...

Prehistoric desert footprints are earliest evidence for humans on Arabian Peninsula

Humanity originated on the African continent at least 300,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence in southern Greece and the Levant (modern-day Israel) that some early members of our species expanded beyond Africa around 200,000 years ago, and ...