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In this handout photo provided by NASA, this is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, with an added black background to fit wider screens. It's the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array that linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single Earth-sized virtual telescope.

Black holes may not be stars’ end

In this handout photo provided by NASA, this is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, with an added black background to fit wider screens. It's the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array that linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single Earth-sized virtual telescope.

March 7, 2023, 6:02am Life

New telescope imagery suggests that stars can survive encounters with black holes, a phenomenon that has been modeled but seldom observed, astronomers say. Read story

In this undated photo distributed Monday, March 6, 2023, by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a sphinx statue believed to be made in the likeness of a Roman emperor is uncovered from an archaeological site in Qena, Egypt. The site that also contains a shrine to the Ancient Egyptian god Horus dating back to the Roman era, according to the country's top antiquities official Mostafa Waziri. Waziri also said in a statement that initial examinations point to the statue being modeled after the Roman Emperor Claudius, who ruled in the first century AD.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Sphinx-like Roman-era statue

In this undated photo distributed Monday, March 6, 2023, by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a sphinx statue believed to be made in the likeness of a Roman emperor is uncovered from an archaeological site in Qena, Egypt. The site that also contains a shrine to the Ancient Egyptian god Horus dating back to the Roman era, according to the country's top antiquities official Mostafa Waziri. Waziri also said in a statement that initial examinations point to the statue being modeled after the Roman Emperor Claudius, who ruled in the first century AD.

March 6, 2023, 8:33am Life

Archaeologists unearthed a Sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt, antiquities authorities said Monday. Read story

This 2011 photo shows four Przewalski's horses at the Khomiin Tal reservation in Western Mongolia. They are native to the steppes of Central Asia.

Earliest evidence of horseback riding found

This 2011 photo shows four Przewalski's horses at the Khomiin Tal reservation in Western Mongolia. They are native to the steppes of Central Asia.

March 4, 2023, 4:12pm Life

Archaeologists have found the earliest direct evidence for horseback riding, an innovation that would transform history, in 5,000-year-old human skeletons in central Europe. Read story

New crew from U.S., Russia and UAE arrives at space station

March 3, 2023, 7:31am Life

A new crew arrived at the International Space Station on Friday for a six-month mission, after overcoming trouble with one of the capsule’s docking hooks. Read story

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the crew capsule Endeavour stands ready on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, March 1, 2023. The launch is scheduled for early Thursday morning.

SpaceX launches U.S., Russia, UAE astronauts to space station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the crew capsule Endeavour stands ready on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, March 1, 2023. The launch is scheduled for early Thursday morning.

March 2, 2023, 7:59am Life

SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Thursday, including the first person from the Arab world going up for an extended monthslong stay. Read story

Marty Cooper, the inventor of first commercial mobile phone, poses for the press with a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, during an interview with The Associated Press at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. The four-day show kicks off Monday in a vast Barcelona conference center. It's the world's biggest and most influential meeting for the mobile tech industry.

Father of cellphone sees dark side but also hope in new tech

Marty Cooper, the inventor of first commercial mobile phone, poses for the press with a Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, during an interview with The Associated Press at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. The four-day show kicks off Monday in a vast Barcelona conference center. It's the world's biggest and most influential meeting for the mobile tech industry.

February 28, 2023, 7:48am Business

Holding the bulky brick cellphone he’s credited with inventing 50 years ago, Martin Cooper thinks about the future. Read story

Fuel vents from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as she sits on Launch Complex 39-A Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, after the launch was scrubbed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Last-minute problem keeps SpaceX rocket, astronauts grounded

Fuel vents from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as she sits on Launch Complex 39-A Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, after the launch was scrubbed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

February 27, 2023, 8:18am Life

Last-minute technical trouble forced SpaceX to call off Monday’s attempt to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. Read story

Farmworkers cull lettuce in Salinas. Lettuce is a major crop in the Salinas Valley, valued at $1.2 billion.

Making a salad might be getting more expensive. Could climate change be to blame?

Farmworkers cull lettuce in Salinas. Lettuce is a major crop in the Salinas Valley, valued at $1.2 billion.

February 27, 2023, 6:00am Food

In his nearly four decades of growing lettuce, spinach, kale and other leafy greens in California and Arizona, Tony Alameda has seen plenty of bad years. But lately, he said, there have been many more “noticeably bad” years in a row. Read story

Dr. Christian Sidor, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology, and Brandon Peecook, former University of Washington graduate student now Curator of Paleontology at Idaho State University, show the size and placement of the fossil fragment compared to the cast of a Daspletosaurus femur in 2015.

Is a 17-inch fossil enough to inspire Washington’s state dinosaur?

Dr. Christian Sidor, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology, and Brandon Peecook, former University of Washington graduate student now Curator of Paleontology at Idaho State University, show the size and placement of the fossil fragment compared to the cast of a Daspletosaurus femur in 2015.

February 26, 2023, 6:02am Latest News

Mystery and questions surround the effort to name Suciasaurus rex the state dinosaur. Read story

This image shows images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. One of the sources (bottom left) could contain as many stars as our present-day Milky Way, but is 30 times more compact.

Space telescope spies massive galaxies near cosmic dawn

This image shows images of six candidate massive galaxies, seen 500 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. One of the sources (bottom left) could contain as many stars as our present-day Milky Way, but is 30 times more compact.

February 22, 2023, 8:00pm Life

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these “monsters.” Read story