In 2006, Pluto was demoted in a very controversial decision. Unless you ignore nearly all of planetary science, it’ll never be one again.
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The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
Valles Marineris is the Solar System’s grandest canyon, many times longer, wider, and deeper than the Grand Canyon. What scarred Mars so?
Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
The universe’s largest seismometer reveals clues about the Gas Giant’s interior.
Mindfulness may be especially useful for gaining more control of your impulses to spend.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis argues that a comet strike caused major changes to climate and human cultures on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
The right questions are those sparked from the joy of discovery.
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
A new study analyzed Martian glaciers to discover that the planet had numerous ice ages.
In the largest star-forming region close to Earth, JWST found hundreds of planetary-mass objects. How do these free-floating planets form?
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 […]
The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.
Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.