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Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
A new study shows bacteria could survive travel from Earth to Mars.
The unconventional method could help astronomers better track meteorites that fall during the daytime.
Help future Mars rovers better navigate the red planet’s treacherous terrain.
And could Earth-based life provide the seeds for biology elsewhere? Today, on Earth, there’s an enormous variety and diversity of life on our planet. Every single surviving lifeform appears, in […]
A recent study tested how well the fungi species Cladosporium sphaerospermum blocked cosmic radiation aboard the International Space Station.
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?
It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.
Don’t wait until Christmas to gift a telescope this year. All throughout the year, two bright lights have stood out in the post-sunset skies. Earlier this year, on March 31, 2020, […]
It likely isn’t the rare occurrence we once thought it was. In our Solar System, there’s one overwhelming source of mass that all the planets orbit around: our Sun. Each planet […]
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
Here’s what the world’s space agencies hope to learn about the Red planet.
From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.
The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.
When one group says “A” and another group says “B,” consider that everyone might be wrong. One of the biggest enemies of scientific truth is the setup of a false dichotomy. […]
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
A new study makes a compelling case for the origin of unexplained masses of underground rock causing changes to the Earth’s magnetic field.
We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.
Just how close are we to setting up camp on another planet? It’s complicated.
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Sure, we’re warming now. But will this continue, or will natural factors change things? According to our best understanding of Earth’s climate, the global average temperature has increased significantly over the […]
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
At four million solar masses, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is quite small for a galaxy its size. Did we lose the original?
The new treatment targets the underlying genetic cause of the disease.