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Some worlds have two suns – and that’s just what this planet is. McConnell began documenting the movements of Russia’s Soyuz rockets in 2015. Every three months, a spacecraft takes off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying three cosmonauts and a cosmonaut on a six-hour journey to the International Space Station. At about the same time,

We can detect signals from black hole mergers, but can we also detect signatures of more exotic collisions? Victor de Schwamberg / Science Photo Library Gravitational wave signals that appear to emanate from colliding black holes may actually come from colliding strange and exotic stars. It’s been theorized, but we don’t know if it exists.

The heart beats approximately 100,000 times a day, totaling around 3 billion times throughout an average lifetime. With each heartbeat, blood is pumped to the lungs…

Upon entering my department’s weekly Astro Coffee Journal Club some years ago, I was immediately struck by an existential crisis regarding the future of our planet.…

New genus and species of Silesauridae named Gondwanax paracensis It was identified from fossilized remains found in southern Brazil. Gondwanax paracensis. Image credit: Rodrigo Temp Müller,…

Russian propaganda about invasion of Ukraine affects AI chatbot accuracyRoman Pilipi/AFP/Getty Artificial intelligence chatbots have struggled to consistently provide accurate answers about Russia's invasion of Ukraine,…