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Most scientists concur that the Moon formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, following Earth’s collision with a planetoid resembling Mars. For what happened next, there are a plethora of models and theories. According to the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory’s most recent analysis,
On Saturday night, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. At 7:25 p.m., the rocket took off and was visible for hundreds of kilometers. Twenty-one Starlink satellites, including six with Direct to Cell capabilities, had to be sent into orbit
Some stars around the center supermassive black hole of the Milky Way appear surprisingly young for their age. But these celebrities have a far darker explanation for their youthful appearance than do people, who could seem refreshed after receiving new collagen injections. They consumed their
Homo humans left behind little clues about their whereabouts when they migrated out of Africa and returned 20,000 years later to Eurasia. And in the interim, where had they gone? According to a study, Homo sapiens left Africa during that enigmatic time and settled on
The first crewed launch of Boeing’s new Starliner capsule is now scheduled for May 6, five more days later than originally planned. The much awaited Crew Flight Test (CFT) of the Starliner mission was scheduled for May 1st by NASA and Boeing. But it isn’t
Trinity College Dublin researchers found that people’s rates at which they interpret visual information vary greatly using a blink-and-you-ll-miss-it experiment. Some individuals receive more visual information in a given amount of time than others because they are able to perceive quickly changing visual cues at
One of the fundamental building blocks of life, amino acids, are probably not going to be lacking in any lifeforms that reside in Venus’s poisonous clouds. That’s what researchers claim is the outcome of a recent lab experiment, at least. Though Venus is Earth’s “twin,”
A FAHomo sapiens, as a species, left Africa some 70,000 years ago and started to colonize new areas of the globe. And then what? It turns out that our DNA have some hidden information. An area encompassing modern-day Iran has been identified as a major
According to a recent experiment, NASA’s next Europa Clipper spacecraft may be able to collect a single ice grain that was blasted from Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, which might potentially provide evidence of extraterrestrial life. “It might be easier than we thought to find life,
Scientists have discovered that an incredibly bright supermassive black hole is not performing as predicted. Not as significant as many of its counterparts in other galaxies, this big black hole is only responsible for strong jets and high radiation levels. The nearest quasar to Earth,