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Astronomers have discovered an enormous celestial entity so unusual they named it ‘the Barbenheimer Star’ – a moniker referring to the recent cultural phenomenon of two blockbuster movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, which were so opposite, yet so successful at the same moment (‘Barbenheimer’). The team from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Another ancient and lost city has been identified by archaeologists working with LiDAR in the Amazon Rainforest—with this most recent society dating as far back as the Greco-Persian Wars of Ancient Greece. Located in Ecuador’s Upano Valley on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains, the area’s vast civilizational footprint had…

Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it’s still in the process of consuming its host galaxy. The international team, led by the University of Cambridge, used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect the black hole, which dates…

A newly discovered giant dinosaur species may be the closest relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, and could even represent the moment that the genus experimented with a huge body. The new species was recently described in the journal Scientific Reports by paleontologist Sebastian Dalman and his colleagues. It was a mighty carnivore that…

Everyone who’s given five seconds to look into it knows that the Aurora Borealis is cause by charged particles from the Sun interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field, but what if there were no Sun, could there still be an aurora That’s what astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope seem…

A new non-invasive test could make it easier for doctors to predict successful pregnancies for women undergoing IVF, improving the accuracy and outcomes of this procedure among couples struggling to conceive. In-vitro-fertilization (IVF), a treatment that involves fertilizing eggs in a laboratory and later implanting them in the uterus, has been…

A burst of radio waves from deep space—the largest ever detected—was found to have originated from a collection of tighly-packed galaxies which may be interacting in ways never seen before, a new study finds. Called an “FRB” or a fast radio burst, astronomers from Northwestern University detected the most distant, oldest,…