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Astronomers find a shockingly ancient black hole the size of 12 billion suns

June 23, 2019 at 9:20 a.m.

Some 12.8 billion light years away, astronomers have spotted an object of almost impossible brightness — the most luminous object ever seen in such ancient space. It's from just 900...

You can earn $13,000 a year selling your poop

June 16, 2018 at 7:45 p.m.

You can donate blood, plasma, eggs, and sperm. Why not poop? Yes, your feces are perhaps your greatest untapped monetary resource. Thanks to a nonprofit organization called OpenBiome, you can...

Kepler spacecraft finds a second life – and an important new exoplanet

June 23, 2019 at 2:24 a.m.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft should have been rendered useless by a 2013 hardware failure, but instead its secondary mission -- called K2 -- has just yielded its first major discovery in...

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