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Venus: Hot, toxic, hellish… home?
Time to build a Corellian shipyard?
The unmanned lander will help scientists learn more about the interior of Mars and the development of rocky planets.
The CEO once said a self-sustaining Mars colony won’t work if it’s wildly expensive for each person to make the voyage.
The famous astrophysicist argues why Elon Musk is more important than Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
A new book tells the very old story in a fun way for a younger generation.
Thanks to museum curators, there’s no shortage of the stuff.
As the world gets hotter, men may have fewer and fewer viable sperm
The definition of a kilogram will now be fixed to Planck’s constant, a fundamental part of quantum physics.
New research identifies an unexpected source for some of earth’s water.
Here’s the science of black holes, from supermassive monsters to ones the size of ping-pong balls.
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In a breakthrough for nuclear fusion research, scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor have produced temperatures necessary for nuclear fusion on Earth.
To explain the origin of everything, science needs to explain itself.
Giving our solar system a “slap in the face.”
Is the future with radiative cooling?
The climate change we’re witnessing is more dramatic than we might think.
California’s raging fires show how climate change can unleash totally new—and deadly—kinds of weather.
It’s unlikely that there’s anything on the planet that is worth the cost of shipping it back
Two massive clouds of dust in orbit around the Earth have been discussed for years and finally proven to exist.
Ryan O’Neal’s latest addition to his Astronomy series is a tribute to the dying spacecraft.
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Our friendly neighborhood gas giant serves as a cosmic catcher’s mitt.
Scientists explore the biggest questions of cosmology.
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The concept was likened to a porch light in our little neighborhood of the galaxy.
We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
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It’s an asteroid, it’s a comet, it’s actually a spacecraft?
A perspective from Brother Guy Consolmagno, astronomer and theologian.
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
Follow along as the InSight spacecraft crosses millions of miles to the red planet.
A young star and a belt of gasses give the game away.
