In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.
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A new study of Martian dust gives insights into the ancient Martian climate. The findings hint at a wetter world.
The universe’s largest seismometer reveals clues about the Gas Giant’s interior.
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.
Crystallization is an entirely random process, so scientists have developed clever ways to investigate it at a molecular level.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis argues that a comet strike caused major changes to climate and human cultures on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
Really simple interventions can greatly reduce indoor temperatures during the summer, particularly in places like the Pacific Northwest.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
Cold War meets Star Wars in this cut-away of a 1950 “rubber bubble,” the first line of defense against nuclear sneak attack.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
The monsoon rains were not always so reliable.
It’s perhaps never been harder to resist the urge to overspend.
These missions will put us one step closer to the ultimate goal: crewed trips to Mars.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
This is a time for family and friends to gather, watch the full moon and eat mooncakes and other delicacies.
Debris from Pluto-sized collisions, not aliens, are streaming through the galaxy. In 2017, scientists discovered an object passing through our Solar System that was unlike anything else we had ever seen. […]
Though these ancient settlers of China were culturally cosmopolitan, their DNA turns out to have been completely distinct from the communities with which they interacted.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
“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.”
