Water may be far more abundant on the lunar surface than previously thought.
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Just say no to artist’s illustrations. This is what the Universe actually looks like. The Universe we observe often surpasses our greatest imaginings. This 20-year time-lapse of stars near the center […]
The peasant turned czarist advisor has come to be known and feared as the devil incarnate, but was he really as demonic as we have been led to believe?
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.
Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself. But what happens when the answers aren’t around anymore?
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
Archaeologists discover a cave painting of a wild pig that is now the world’s oldest dated work of representational art.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
The complacent majority needs to step up and call for action on climate change.
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The results could help NASA’s Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
The credibility problem facing the biomedical and public health establishment is, at least in part, a product of its own making.
A leading British space scientist thinks there is life under the ice sheets of Europa.
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 […]
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]
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 […]
Scientists discover that under certain conditions two kinds of water exist.
They say that seein’ is believin’. But everything we see has to have a scientific explanation. When you look at the Sun on a day where there’s a clear sky, […]
Some of the most extreme weather in the Solar System just got stranger.
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 […]