There’s a moment when you first glimpse Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, that your brain simply refuses to process what your eyes are seeing. It’s like someone took a giant ice cream scoop to the ...
Deep within the Indian Ocean lies an extraordinary feature that has puzzled scientists for over seven decades—the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL). This vast “gravity hole,” the largest of its kind on ...
The fact is, however, that the mass of black holes varies greatly out in the vast universe, and astronomers have recently discovered what they believe may be the biggest one ever found. They estimate ...
The Indian Ocean Geoid Low ranks as the largest negative "gravity hole" anomaly on Earth, which is why the “thumbprint” jumps ...
While Australia is home to some of the world’s most important rare-earth metals – like neodymium, which is used in magnets ...
The Indigenous leader on the threats to his Kayapó tribe, why ancestral knowledge matters — and the meaning behind his ...
A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...
When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...
A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.
A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.
Scientists found where the universe’s missing matter went. Black holes have been pushing it far away from galaxies.