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An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?

Victorians want to rectify 19th-century surveying error – and become South Australians.

Why a 400-mile enclosure around the North Sea is not as crazy as it sounds

The raw ingredients just weren’t there. Thankfully, their predecessors were. Here on Earth, our planet practically overflows with life. After more than 4 billion years, life has spread to practically […]

Imagine Heraclitus spending an afternoon down by the river…

It contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined, and the science of our planet explains why. Although practically all of Earth’s human population lives on dry land, our surface […]

There are three possible ways we’ll find alien life. With all of these chances, the only question is which will come first. Given everything humanity has learned about the Universe, it […]

The mission could launch as soon as the 2030s, the researchers said.

You actually score worse on memory tests.

If Arctic ice continues to melt at its projected rate, the bears will go extinct due to starvation by the end of the century according to a first-ever projected timeline.

A strange weakness in the Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing and possibly splitting, shows data.

Plate tectonics and mantle plumes set the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos.

Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]

From the mid-19th century, fossils were used as evidence for continental drift – but mainstream scientists didn’t buy it until the 1950s.

The study identified superhabitable planets outside of our solar system.

The net famously failed to work as planned last year. Now, a new version is making waves.

Ignoring a scientific truth doesn’t change it, even when the consequences are deadly. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?” Many of us, as children, […]

The discovery pushes back humanity’s history with domestication.

Let’s talk about swans. All swans are birds or, more specifically, waterfowl. They are large and sport long, slender necks. They migrate south for the winter, traveling in that eye-catching […]

A new study discovers the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in the universe.

Yes, the Big Bang is real, but what about what came before? If you ask anyone about the origin of some phenomenon that we’ve observed, they’ll usually default to the same […]

The few seconds of nuclear explosion opening shots in Godzilla alone required more than 6.5 times the entire budget of the monster movie they ended up in.

Scientists speculate that if life were to have spontaneously developed on Earth, the first thing there would need to be are vesicles.

Two of Iceland’s largest whaling companies are keeping their boats in port this summer. One of them permanently.

Living simply now strikes many people as simply boring.

GPS holds the key, but astronomers can’t do it without help. Since 2019, the night sky — as seen by both human eyes and the telescopes we use to enhance our views of […]

Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]

It’s one of the nation’s worst oil spills on record.

Is the “big freeze” our inevitable fate, or can dark energy save us? When we look out at the Universe today, we see sources of light practically everywhere we look. In […]

A new report from The New York Times describes a Pentagon task force’s long-standing project to collect data on unidentified aerial phenomena and a Pentagon consultant who says the U.S. has collected crashed “off-world vehicles.”