Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
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A classical equivalent to Chanel No. 5.
There are a few possible solutions to the problem of interstellar travel, but they largely remain within the realm of science fiction.
By the end, even his mom wanted him gone.
Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
A battle between different kinds of love.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
The most unique interloper into our Solar System has a natural explanation that fits perfectly — no aliens required.
Ari Loeb, who suggested in 2018 that the mysterious object was an alien craft, is back to discuss the evidence.
Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that’s 10 with 30 zeros after it.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Some solar cells are so lightweight they can sit on a soap bubble.
Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.
What’s the point of all that money?
At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it.
Until the Apollo missions, we had no idea how the moon got here, just a series of educated guesses. They rewrote the story of the moon’s origins.
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world’s children in one night.
Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they’re an easy target and are not completely controllable.
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.