Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like weird animals and climate change. He graduated from University College London with a degree in particle physics before training as a journalist. When he's not writing, Ben enjoys reading literature, playing the guitar and embarrassing himself with chess.
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The new image will be compared to an older one captured by Hubble to help scientists learn more about the structure and composition of spiral galaxies

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Astrophysicists think a newly discovered region of the Milky Way could provide hints about the evolution of our galaxy and its potentially violent past.

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The new phase was made by firing lasers at 10 ytterbium ions inside a quantum computer.

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A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12).

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Holes in the sun can beam out solar material at 500 miles per second.

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Explorers have discovered a series of mysterious, "perfectly aligned" holes punched into the seafloor roughly 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) beneath the ocean.

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The core stage of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket is set to tumble uncontrollably back to Earth today in a reentry that China is tracking closely.

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Earth's crust is dripping "like honey" into our planet's hot interior beneath the Andes mountains, scientists have discovered.

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Despite the false alarm, SETI researchers are still pretty sure we're not alone in the universe.

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Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier is losing ice at its fastest rate in 5,500 years, raising concerns about the ice sheet's future.

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Microwave jammers, mini-satellites and space lasers could all be used to scuttle Starlink .

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Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown previously classified footage of an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP).

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Aliens could be forced to give up cosmic expansion to avoid catastrophe.

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The collider cost $730 million and is many decades in the making

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A gigantic "potentially hazardous" asteroid that may be twice the size of the Empire State Building is set to zoom past Earth Thursday (April 28), according to NASA.

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The wave likely scoured the surface of the weakly magnetic planet.

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Scientists think this could also help to explain mysterious phenomena on Earth.

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Over 2,500 civilians have been killed in the 10 days of the city's siege, Ukrainian officials say.

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Earth's inner core may be filled with a weird substance that is neither solid nor liquid, according to a new study.

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Although the storm is severe, scientists caution against linking it with climate change.

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The addition of two southern hemisphere telescopes will enable ATLAS to do full sky scans.

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The particle was found by smashing billions of lead atoms into each other at extreme speeds.

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Scientists have found "compelling evidence" that Saturn's "Death Star" moon is hiding an ocean just beneath its surface, furthering the search for possible life in our solar system.
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