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New NASA Supercomputer Simulations Reveal What it Would be Like to Fall Into a Supermassive Black Hole

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Supermassive black holes are capable of violently devouring entire stars, and warping the very fabric of spacetime with their near incomprehensible mass ...

A failed star and an ammonia trail could reveal how some giant exoplanets form

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Astronomers now have a way to figure out how gas-giant planets form, thanks to a discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

NASA confirms “independent review” of Orion heat shield issue

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Enlarge / The Orion spacecraft after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at the end of the Artemis I mission. NASA has asked ...

Scientists Discover Why “Earth’s Twin” Has Almost No Water

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines ...

Huge asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza will skim past Earth at 56,000mph today, NASA warns

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The asteroid 2024 JZ will pass Earth today within just 0.028 astronomical units Experts insist that this is perfectly safe and that 2024 ...

‘Lost’ spy satellite orbited Earth undetected for 25 years—until now, scientists say

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s ...

Does the Universe expand by stretching or creating space?

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about the nature of our Universe: space itself cannot and ...

Breakthrough Method Pierces Ionosphere to Reveal Radio Universe in Stunning Clarity : ScienceAlert

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The very lowest frequencies of the radio Universe have just been revealed in spectacular clarity. A team of astronomers has used a ...

Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics are due to blobs left behind by cosmic collision

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Temporal evolution for the viscosity (upper row) and compositional (lower row) field of the 3D reference case showing LLSVP-sourced plume-induced subduction initiation. ...

Scientists discover atmosphere on super Earth planet that could pave way for life

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

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