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Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a dwarf galaxy, giving new clues about a very early phase of galaxy evolution that has not been observed before.

A team of scientists at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have found that the moon has a core similar to Earth's.

Space shuttle Discovery's final mission is delayed again due to additional small cracks on the shuttle's tank. The mission is now off until late February.

Hermes (HRMS.PA) has defended itself against any possible take-over by rival LVMH by pooling in their shares in a single holding company, France's stock market regulator (AMF) reported on Friday.

A futuristic water-powered jet pack which can hover up to 30ft in the air and reach speeds of 22mph has been unveiled at the London International Boat Show.

Scientists have reported the detection of strong gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula, a shattered remnant of a massive star that ended its life in a supernova explosion.

Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery of why the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, is millions of degrees hotter than its surface. The answer lies in fountains of plasma called spicules that shoot up from the Sun's surface.

Florida's Tampa International airport closed its primary runway on Thursday after a shift in earth's northern magnetic pole made it impossible for planes to take accurate bearings. The event has ominously set in motion another round of doomsday talk as people shared anxiety on Internet discussion forums about the impending apocalypse in 2012 as predicted by the Mayan calendar.

J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter series was cleared of plagiarism charges filed by Paul Allen, trustee of late author Adrian Jacob's estate in a landmark judgment on Thursday.

The Mega Millions lottery announced the final winning numbers 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and 42 and the winners are from Idaho and Washington state, triggering a joke on the online that the shoe winners may be cursed now. The jackpot money of $355 million will be shared by two persons from Idaho and Washington state.

A new study has found no significant link between cosmic collisions and growth of black holes for at least the past eight billion years, meaning other, less dramatic phenomena are responsible.

The number of weather-related natural calamities rose last year, showing further proof of the growing impact of climate change.

Nearly 40 Australian and international scientists will sail from Hobart on the Aurora Australis to investigate the break-up of a major Antarctic glacier.

Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends in Mars' southern hemisphere in mid-March.

Moon takes a bite out of the Sun, as the colloquial saying goes, during the start of the year 2011. This year's first partial solar eclipse will be seen on Tuesday, in view from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia.

One statistic from Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Florida last February is only an estimate and received little media coverage, but is of great importance to many individuals and families and to the nation itself.

Piaget partnered with 'The Cinema Society' for a special screening of Blue Valentine starring Michelle Williams.

Celebrating twenty years of contemporary fashion is the second edition of the two-part exhibition, 'The Idealized History of Contemporary Fashion Vol. 2', by curators Olivier Saillard and Bernadette Caille at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Queensland in Australia, submerged in severe floods, became the first news of natural disaster in the New Year with 200,000 people and 22 towns affected. On Sunday, one woman drowned while crossing a causeway, while the Queensland Bureau of Meteorology has warned that another strong thunderstorm in the night.

The XB-70 Valkyrie was much more than an exhibit at the National Museum of the US Air Force, Ohio. It was a unique concept turned to realty, pushing all the horizons of aeronautical engineering.

For 106 years, Times Square has been the center of worldwide attention on New Year's Eve, ever since the owners of One Times Square began Ball Lowering celebration in 1907, and this tradition is now a universal symbol of welcoming the New Year.

Over one million people each year throng the streets of Times Square in New York City on Dec. 31 to watch the falling Ball to celebrate the passage of another year and welcome 2011.

She waged a public battle against the promotion of thin models with revelations of her struggle against anorexia

Global transportation network, Korean Air will launch its first A380 service in May 2011 with the entire upper deck of the aircraft devoted to business class flyers.

A three-year study to re-evaluate the story of the Greek Bible fragments has provided a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture. The new research also illustrates the cross-fertilisation between Jewish and Christian biblical scholars in the Middle Ages.

Bible.is, the audio-based Bible app created by Faith Comes By Hearing, has reached one million downloads in 5 months

The Blizzard of 2010 has left thousands of people stranded in airports, on roadways and in unplowed neighborhoods throughout the northeast.

Now, researchers have found that the era of first fast growth of the most massive black holes occurred when the universe was only about 1.2 billion years old - not two to four billion years old, as was previously believed.

A full-blown blizzard pounded the northeast from yesterday into today, making roadways hazardous, shutting down transit systems and causing at least one state government to declare a state of emergency.