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Around Halloween in 2015, astronomers discovered ‘The Goblin’. Now, it’s leading us to what some call Planet X.
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Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
A mind-bending paradox questions the nature of reality.
By 2022, there may be as many as three artificial moons floating above the city of Chengdu.
NASA research finds a new direction in searching for signs of life in the Universe.
Climate change stands to take the one thing away from us that might make it easier to deal with, cheap beer.
Hawking, who died in March, answers questions like “Is there a God?” and “Is time travel possible?” in his final book, which is available today.
The Ocean Cleanup’s System 001 is being deployed at Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
This meteorite is the oldest known volcanic rock in the solar system, dated at 4,565,000,000 years old.
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But they are only taking the CO2 equivalent of 32 cars off the road every year.
This is doubly worrisome on the heels of the recent UN climate change report, which gave humanity an urgent deadline to cut carbon emissions: just 12 years.
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used survey data from 2 million Americans to examine the links between climate change and mental health issues.
Most of us will still be alive then. Maybe.
Early reports show that it works, as odd as the approach may seem to some fontologists.
Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
It had a role in that old farmhouse…
Is The Goblin’s orbit a breadcrumb leading us to Planet X?
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why Trump’s Space Force is “not a crazy idea”.
Lederman helped promote the importance of particle physics to the general public and his research laid the groundwork for the Standard Model.
The field they work in is quite cutting edge.
Strickland, whose research helped advance the field of laser science, is the only living female Nobel laureate for physics.
Credit: NASA NASA this week unveiled its new plan that many are calling “bold” and other lofty adjectives, with a 10-to-20-year span, each phase of which is somewhat dependent on […]
In the 1990s, the two scientists made key discoveries that led to the development of promising new cancer-fighting immunotherapy drugs.
Researchers discover extraterrestrial origins of a chemical essential for human DNA and other cell processes.
No particle we know of can explain what’s going on.
Also known as the “Halloween Comet,” a 2,000-foot-wide asteroid is expected to pass Earth on November 11.
Flat Earth theory has enjoyed staying power since at least the 19th century despite being patently untrue. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the late Carl Sagan, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and other big thinkers will show you how to disprove this bad idea, all without having to take a journey into space.
Break out your prospecting gear and space suit.
It’s a record magnetic field, but… yeah. That didn’t last long.