Valles Marineris on Mars is 10 times longer and three times deeper than Earth’s Grand Canyon.
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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb claimed to track down and find alien spherules on the ocean bottom. Here’s the sober truth.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
Scientists at Washington University are patenting a new electrolyzer designed for frigid Martian water.
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
It may be old tech, but it’s super-reliable.
Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they’re interchangeable. They’re not.
“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
Zircons in a Martian meteorite widens the possible timeframe for life on Mars.
Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?
We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth’s mantle holds subtle clues about our planet’s past.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
At its biggest for the next 15 years, it’s still much smaller than the Moon. On October 6, 2020, Mars makes its closest approach to Earth until 2035. Earth orbits in […]
An ancient Martian meteorite carries with it some compelling implications.
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
The universe’s largest seismometer reveals clues about the Gas Giant’s interior.
Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of “wabi sabi” can help.
With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.
A study reports that people think those with similar personality traits look alike and vice versa.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Science has come a long way since Mary Shelley penned “Frankenstein.” But we still grapple with the same questions.
Introducing the Deep Space Food Challenge.
A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
Boston Dynamics’ notorious robot goes on an interplanetary mission.
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
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 […]
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.