In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion light-years from Earth, SN 2024afav was a prime example of a superluminous ...

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An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

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A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some - a small ​fraction - ...

European forecaster predicts El Niño formation by May, with significant chances for a strong or super El Niño event.

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The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Southwest China's Guizhou province, recognized as the world's highest bridge, attracted over 300,000 visitors in just nine days from Feb 15 to 23, with 75 percent ...

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Wild fringe-lipped bats spend just one-tenth of the night in flight, but they can precisely snatch a calling frog and nab prey that rivals their own size Joshua Rapp Learn - Contributing Writer ...

For the first time in more than a decade, the Seattle Seahawks are playing in the Super Bowl—but what exactly is the team’s mascot? There’s no one bird officially dubbed the seahawk, but a few ...

Congratulations to Grace Wade for succeeding in her New Year’s resolution to run a half-marathon last year. I’m a little sceptical about some of the claims derived from countless PR-fodder surveys ...