Scientists Discover Hidden Symmetry on Earth That Nobody Can Explain
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that balanced it out, performed evasive maneuvers,…
They’ve Been Searching for the Milky Way’s Black Hole Wind for 50 Years and Finally Found It
Supermassive black holes are primarily known as one-way entitities. Their overpowering mass warps spacetime, and they swallow dust,…
A Massive Hidden Planet May Be Lurking Beyond Neptune—This Caltech Scientist Thinks “Planet Nine” Could Be Confirmed This Year
The search for a ninth planet in our solar system could reach a turning point as soon as…
Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
What to know about the total solar eclipse in August
Summary A total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Greenland, Iceland, Spain and Portugal on August 12.…
An AI trawled through 35 years of Hubble images and found more than 800 strange objects that had never been documented before, showing that one of astronomy’s most famous archives is still hiding discoveries in plain sight
Two researchers at the European Space Agency have run an AI tool across nearly 100 million cropped images…
Scientists Find Chunk of Lost Planet in Desert
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Fold a single sheet of paper just 42 times and it would be thick enough to reach the Moon, because each fold doubles the thickness and doubling grows far faster than anyone expects
Take a single sheet of ordinary paper, about a tenth of a millimetre thick. Fold it in half…
NASA directs ISS crew to board spacecraft amid leak fix attempt
Five astronauts were forced to seek shelter aboard a spacecraft attached to the International Space Station Friday as…
APOD: 2026 June 6 – Charon: Moon of Pluto
APOD: 2026 June 6 – Charon: Moon of Pluto Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
SpaceX IPO: Why Starship Could End Overnight Business Travel
Topline As investors prepare for what could be one of the biggest IPOs ever, SpaceX is increasingly valued…
NASA Provides Update on Space Station Leak
The Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnel, known as the PrK, on the International Space Station has experienced cracks…