To solve the mysteries of black holes, a human should just venture into one. However, there is a rather complicated catch: A human can do this...
Humanity has discovered just 31 magnetic neutron stars, or magnetars, stellar objects with incredible magnetism. New observations of one of these stars rep
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Thread-like filaments, attached to hollow spheres in 635 million-year-old rocks, represent the earliest evidence we have of life on land. They may also hel
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As the star at the center of the Solar System, the Sun holds a lot of our attention. Many missions are currently getting up close and...