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If you're an evil genius supervillain looking to freak out your enemy with a big messy space kablooie, here's a…
Astronomers continue to find more and more of the building blocks of life out in space. This time, researchers have…
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Every large galaxy in the nearby universe contains a supermassive black hole at its core. The mass of those black…
The early Solar System was a turbulent and chaotic place with icy material hurled far from the Sun, becoming the…
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Earth is, in many ways, a water world. Around two-thirds of its surface is covered in water, and the oceans…
Dark stars are hypothetical objects that might have been present in the early Universe before the first stars and even…