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For the Pluto fans, another sad state of affairs: your favorite world won’t make it. Nothing on Earth lasts forever, and that’s a truth that even extends to all the objects […]
And does it require the idea of ‘negative gravity’ in order to work? The biggest question that we’re even capable of asking, with our present knowledge and understanding of the Universe, […]
Experts say global warming is no longer some future worry. It’s already here.
The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.
Carl Sagan—who first coined the term—was tempted to call them “star-tar.”
It’s the first time humans have landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon.
A new report from the American Meteorological Society shows that Earth’s atmosphere had the highest levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 2017 than it’s had in the past 800,000 years.
A vacuum cleaner is the wrong picture. Time to bust that myth. There are no classes of object in our Universe more extreme than black holes. With so much mass present […]
As a result of warming seas, at least 10 types of sharks currently found in warmer areas will likely be found in British waters in coming decades.
Scientists have been probing our solar system for extraterrestrial life.
NASA research finds a new direction in searching for signs of life in the Universe.
A case for looking beyond the planetary scientist’s (or even the astronomer’s) definition. Ever since 2006, when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the term planet — introducing the term ‘dwarf […]
Microsoft is experimenting with underwater data centers that could cut cooling costs and provide faster internet connections to the billions of people who live near oceans.
A new paper in Nature adds urgency to the fight against climate change.
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
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Firefighters in Northern and Southern California are struggling to contain three wildfires that have forced more than 100,000 residents to evacuate.
It may have been captured by Neptune since it formed, but Triton remains king of the Kuiper belt. Our Solar System is arguably the most well-studied corner of the Universe, with […]
This is what the world will look like, 250 million years from now
Looking at the 2011 earthquake in Japan, researchers found that natural disasters make men — but not women — more fond of taking risks.
They were a little optimistic in 1912, but they understood that adding carbon to the atmosphere has side effects.
This technology could close the gap between nature and the man-made environment.
Once hunted to near-extinction, humpback whales living in southern oceans near Antarctica are making a comeback. But will it last?
It’s a problem that we still haven’t solved, and it spells doom for all of our low-Earth orbiting satellites, even today. On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, […]
A Scottish inventor has created a water bottle that could save ocean life the world over. But will the plastic industry let it happen?
Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
California’s raging fires show how climate change can unleash totally new—and deadly—kinds of weather.