Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to anchor our galaxy, explaining both the blistering speeds of stars near the ...

Scientists recorded a total-column ozone concentration of 102 Dobson units, the 8th-lowest level since 1986. Colder-than-average temperatures and strong winds in the stratosphere circling Antarctica ...

A SpaceX rocket that burned up after re-entering the atmosphere unleashed a plume of vaporised metals over Europe, a type of pollution that is expected to increase as spacecraft and satellites ...

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep Mediterranean Sea, with the aim of detecting high-energy neutrino events. These ...

From the surface, Chetumal Bay looks almost placid – just a wide sheet of water with no hint of drama underneath. But below that calm is Taam ja’, a massive underwater sinkhole, or “blue hole,” that’s ...

An artist's rendition of an imploding star, surrounded by expelled gas and dust shown in red Keith Miller, Caltech / IPAC – SELab Over roughly the past decade, a gleaming star some 2.5 million ...

The phaseout of CFCs under the Montreal Protocol successfully protected the ozone layer but led to substitute chemicals with unforeseen consequences. HCFCs and HFCs break down into trifluoroacetic ...

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At the center of the Milky Way, something immense and invisible exerts a powerful gravitational grip. For decades, astronomers have assumed it was a supermassive black hole. But new research suggests ...

"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the galaxy's dark matter halo are two manifestations of the same, continuous ...