Since 1957, the world's space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
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It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
After the 2011 Fukushima disaster, it was Germany, not Japan, that cracked down most severely on nuclear power plants.
And Dr. Jill Tarter never once lost her composure.
Carbon locked in soils can be emitted by bacteria. Turning up the heat on them releases more carbon.
A mile-high tower would not just be a new structure, but a new technology.
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]
In terms of the planets we've discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
Clinical trials by Janssen Pharmaceuticals showed troubling results.
The latest gravitational wave data from LIGO and Virgo finally shows us the truth: there are no "gaps" in the masses of black holes.
Remember Stephen Hawking's robotic voice? It wasn’t a robot.
Congratulations to Penrose, Ghez and Genzel, and to black hole enthusiasts everywhere. On October 6, 2020, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded towards research in black holes. 50% of […]
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
SpaceX's momentous Crew Dragon launch is a sign of things to come for the space industry, and humanity's future.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a 'fight or run' reaction.
For northern hemisphere skywatchers, it might just be the century’s best comet so far. Every once in a while, large, icy objects pass through the inner Solar System. C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) […]
This map of Europe's 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
Batrachopus grandis, an ancient crocodylomorph, may have chased down land prey on its own two feet.
And, at some point, did the Milky Way lose ours? There are some 400 billion objects flying through the Milky Way galaxy with enough mass that — if they were all made of […]
New study of gamma rays and gravitational lensing points to the possible presence of dark matter.
The laws of physics aren’t changing. The Earth is. When it comes to any physical science, we know that the fundamental rules governing how the Universe works remain constant with time. […]
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
Delaying or refusing vaccines for non-medical reasons is literally a killer choice. When it comes to issues at the intersection of science and society, there are all sorts of things that […]
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
Is the cult of youth what we really want trailing us into the afterlife?
Without a little help from Einstein, we couldn’t have made this discovery. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, still churns out novel discoveries. The Hubble eXtreme Deep […]
Google's "Year in Search 2020" results reveal a year when "why" was searched more than ever.