Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

It operates at an even smaller scale than most subatomic behaviors, with potential for the miniaturization of quantum ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

Behold: a live colossal squid in all its glory. After a century of searching, the extremely elusive cephalopod has been ...

O lo is described as a "new color" that scientists argue they’ve enabled people to see – one that doesn’t resemble anything ...

An extremely bold hypothesis proposes transient temporal singularities remove the need for dark matter and dark energy.

The results showed that 16.5 percent of the surveyed participants showed signs of having “severely problematic” news ...

They're native to the lowland forests of eastern Madagascar. In this spider-eat-spider jungle environment, the spider will spin vast nets suspended above rivers and lakes to catch an abundance of ...

After analyzing nearly 1,800 brain autopsies from participants classified as either never, moderate, heavy, or former ...

T he Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...

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The comet brightened pretty quickly, and it now has a magnitude of +7.8 – not bright enough for our own eyes, but visible ...