The past 300,000 years occurs in the blink of a cosmic eye, but it’s meant everything to humanity. The history of humanity was anything but inevitable. Although the Universe created […]
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Only 8 worlds make the astronomical cut as planets. Here are the 10 fascinating bodies that didn’t make it. Astronomically, bodies within the Solar System must achieve three criteria in order […]
It might seem puzzling, in a Universe bound by the speed of light, that this could be true. Here’s the science behind it. If you look out into the distant Universe, […]
The answer depends on how we choose to balance religious freedom, social inclusion, and the search for self-identity.
As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.
The building material seems so ubiquitous — what can we use in its place?
A new computer model solves a pair of Jovian riddles.
Singing is universal. It is found in all cultures and, despite protestations of tone deafness, the vast majority of people can sing.
If they saw us as we were before the recent industrial revolution, would there be any reason to particularly care about us? All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be […]
Eric Weinstein says that we need to rethink the current scientific model to allow for more dreaming.
Documentary explores astrobiology, astronauts, and the awe of it all.
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It’s far earlier than most teams currently do.
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
Cryovolcanoes that eject ice instead of magma have been confirmed to exist on Ceres, which will help studying this formation on other planets and moons throughout the solar system.
“I share this honor with ancestors and teachers who inspired in me a love of poetry,” the 68-year-old poet said.
The age of the Universe is only 13.8 billion years, but we know that protons survive much longer. Here’s how. Since the discovery of radioactivity in the 19th century, humanity has […]
Using advanced laser technology, scientists at NASA will track global changes in ice with greater accuracy.
Scientists think constructing a miles-long wall along an ice shelf in Antarctica could help protect the world’s largest glacier from melting.
Geometric or tabular icebergs are a thing, and they’re kinda beautiful.
We’d never flown past or imaged a small, isolated Kuiper belt object before. Here’s what we know so far. As 2018 ended and 2019 began, NASA’s New Horizons flew past its […]
It’s not volcanic activity, and it’s definitely not from a fire. Mars, our red planetary neighbor, is a vastly different world from Earth. Mars and Earth, to scale, shows how much […]
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
The climate change we’re witnessing is more dramatic than we might think.
Astronauts will be able to harvest the Moon’s natural resources to sustain human life.
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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 […]
content.jwplatform.com Where might we find aliens? Ice moons, methane oceans, and the red planet
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