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Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.

The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.

Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?

From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.

As we shape our future we should ask: Which interpretations of classic sci-fi fables hold sway with today’s powerful tech leaders?

Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.

One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.

Barnard’s star, the closest singlet star system to ours, has long been a target for planet-hunters. We’ve finally confirmed it: they exist!

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.

In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.

The near and far sides of the Moon are so different from each other, and no one is sure why. New lunar samples could confirm a wild theory.

Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?

The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.

We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.

Our research on a Martian meteorite provides new clues about early surface conditions on the red planet.

JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.

Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.

Due to chaos, it was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.

In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.

If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.

In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes of light.

There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.

Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.

The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.

Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?

In 1924, Edwin Hubble found proof that the Milky Way isn’t the only galaxy in the Universe.

Some think the reason fundamental scientific revolutions are so rare is because of groupthink. It’s not; it’s hard to mess with success.