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 […]
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Sometimes, the biggest answers to the deepest questions come in the most unexpected of places. In the Solar System, anything out past Neptune is generally considered to be the outer reaches […]
We may not find Klingons, but what we do find will blow our terrestrial minds.
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Want to change your diet? The easiest method might be to start exercising.
Alternative treatments are often better for noncancer pain, the study found.
And you thought red-light cameras were bad…
“Hothouse Earth” is basically a self-sustaining engine of warming and carbon. Ummm…
The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.
The history of life on Earth took many meandering turns before it gave rise to us. When Earth first formed, all the raw ingredients for life — atoms, molecules, a potentially habitable planet […]
Scientists at NASA are currently developing methane-creating robots to overcome this challenge.
Doomsday prophesies have never once come to pass, but they’ve never had science on their side like this before. Every year, the Earth completes an orbital revolution around the Sun, returning […]
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.
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
While the web of dark matter (purple) might seem to determine cosmic structure formation on its own, the feedback from normal matter (red) can severely impact galactic scales. Both dark […]
In July of 2018, there were 11 wildfires occurring north of the Arctic Circle. That’s more than ever before.
If confirmed by future observations, this would be the most significant discovery of liquid water on Mars yet.
Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]
By 2020, recyclable lids that look like sippy-cups will be de rigueur.
Multi-messenger astronomy further widens our window to the universe.
Hello, tipping point.
Carl Sagan—who first coined the term—was tempted to call them “star-tar.”
Barbara J. King on animal emotions, anthropomorphism, and the future of the planet.
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With over 100 active science missions, from the Hubble Space Telescope to studying ice shifts on Earth, working at NASA can be a dream come true for any astronomer or astrophysicist.
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Star production peaked three billion years after the Big Bang.
The two planets most suited for habitability had very different fates. At last, scientists know why. Imagine the early days of our Solar System, going back billions of years. The Sun […]
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought.
Amongst other things, you can’t get away with handling a salmon suspiciously in Scotland.
Fill up your gas tank, no matter how hot it is, with confidence and safety from anywhere on Earth. For most of the northern hemisphere, summer is in full swing. Along […]
It’s exotic, incredibly cold stuff.
A rare counter-example to the flood of Temperance maps, this Prohibition-era chart celebrates alcohol in its many forms