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Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

Astronomers have observed an unprecedented flare from a black hole located in the AGN J2245+3743, 10 billion light-years away ...

A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at ...

Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the ...