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A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy or a star cluster bound by a hidden swarm of black holes? Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more than 30,000 light-years. It is a compact stellar …

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has made some more progress in his recovery from a back injury. Stafford was able to participate in full during Tuesday’s practice, a day after he made his 2025 training camp practice debut. “I thought he looked good,” McVay said in his press conference. “I thought he looked better than yesterday. I thought it was a …

Back in 2022, the Hubble space telescope appeared to have found the most distant star ever discovered. Named Earendel – morning or rising star in old English – a new paper suggests it might not be what we thought. Earendel was spotted by Hubble due to a fortunate case of gravitational lensing, where light from a distant source has its …

Here’s a story you might have read before in a popular science book or seen in a documentary. It’s the one about early Earth as a lifeless, volcanic hellscape. When our planet was newly formed, the story goes, the surface was a barren wasteland of sharp rocks, strewn with lava flows from erupting volcanoes. The air was an unbreathable fume …

Wylie Dixon was excited to build a future with his beautiful wife – from travelling across Australia to starting the family they had always dreamed of. But everything came to a halt when the ‘fit and healthy’ retail manager received devastating news that he had an aggressive form of appendix cancer. The then 38-year-old had been struggling with months of …

Pregnant Woman, 29, Thought She Had Morning Sickness. Then, She Was Diagnosed with a Fast-Growing Cancer  AOL.comView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

A cognitively impaired pensioner has died after trying to meet up with an AI chatbot that he believed was a real person. Thongbue Wongbandue – of Piscataway in New Jersey, a town just a 45-minute drive southwest of New York City – had been chatting with the bot on Facebook Messenger, when it convinced him that it was a real …

In a speech last month, President Donald J. Trump outlined three executive orders he signed to promote American dominance of AI technology. He promised, in fact, that as America is the country that started the AI race, “I’m here to declare that America is going to win it!”  To do so, his executive orders would make it easier for companies to …

At dawn in the deep waters off North Maluku, Indonesia, a team of technical divers raised their camera lights and found themselves face to face with a creature once known only from stone. The brown spotted coelacanth, an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia, famous for vanishing before the last dinosaur fell, a survivor of a …

Those over 30 remember the pain: that jump scare of dialing a phone number only to be met with the piercing sounds of a fax machine answer tone — the uninvited cousin of the dial-up modem. That’s exactly what The Wonder Years star Fred Savage heard every time he tried to call Alicia Silverstone after they met filming an episode …