Is there life beyond Earth, even in our Solar System? This mission might be humanity’s best hope of finding it. The biggest question facing humanity might be, “Does life exists beyond […]
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LIGO’s enormous arms contract and expand as gravitational waves pass through them. But, puzzlingly, so does the light within them. For the past three years, humanity has known a new kind […]
A new study claims that dark energy is changing with time. Here’s what it would mean, if true. For the past generation, we’ve recognized that our Universe is a particularly dark […]
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Three academic papers from Australia shows sizable bone spurs growing at the base of our skulls.
“I share this honor with ancestors and teachers who inspired in me a love of poetry,” the 68-year-old poet said.
The project involves a high-altitude balloon, tons of tiny particles and knowledge gained from a violent volcano eruption in 1991.
It has already found several bizarre planets outside of our solar system.
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Breakthrough Starshot is moving ahead with an audacious vision for space exploration.
While the world considers future trips to Mars, two astrophysicists make a case for exploring asteroids.
LIGO, here on Earth, has exquisitely-precise distances its lasers travel. With three spacecrafts in motion, how could LISA work? Since it began operating in 2015, advanced LIGO has ushered in an […]
Is consciousness just a showdown between your beliefs and perceptions?
We know that life is possible on an Earth-like world around a Sun-like star. But can it find a way on a Super-Earth? When it comes to the origin of […]
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” — Toni Morrison
Man-Booker prizewinning author Marlon James in a freewheeling game of verbal ping-pong on African mythology, ’80’s hip hop, heavy metal, tattoos, and billionaire philanthropy.
And if they exist, are there alternate-reality versions of you out there, too? You’ve likely imagined it before: another Universe out there, just like this one, where all the random events […]
New experiments look to the interplay between neutrons and magnetic fields to observe our universal reflection.
Intense lightning could have burned us out of the trees.
#MeToo and #TimesUp catapult America into the club of world’s most anti-women countries.
An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines.
The same 32 symbols show up in prehistoric European cave art.
A young star and a belt of gasses give the game away.
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
No matter how long you wait, the matter that makes you probably won’t end up inside a black hole. It’s one of the most pervasive ideas out there: if you wait […]
These ten ghostly astronomical sights house some deep-and-frightening scientific truths within them. With a huge suite of different observatories for viewing the Universe, innumerable details can be revealed. This ‘Godzilla’ asterism […]
With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]
The Universe has been making stars for nearly the entire 13.8 billion years of its history. Here’s what we know. It’s been 13.8 billion years since the hot Big Bang, and […]
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