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 […]
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LEGO folks built an actual, full-sized replica of the Bugatti Chiron—and drove it. What’s next, a Mars rover?
One of the most popular viral videos about space is dead wrong. But it gives us a chance to learn something incredible. There are a lot of moving parts to […]
It will take further study to confirm the star’s iron influx came from a planet or two, but the initial theory is quite compelling.
Illumination from nanobionic plants might one day replace some electrical lighting.
The Large Hadron Collider allowed us to complete the Standard Model. Even so, what we have is incomplete. Here’s what could come next. The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful […]
Anchorage was rocked by back-to-back earthquakes on Friday morning, prompting a tsunami warning.
The quest to find another Earth may be in vain.
When two different techniques give two different results, either someone is wrong, or something incredible is happening. Imagine you were a scientist attempting to measure some property of the Universe. […]
It wasn’t just the Milky Way and Andromeda two billion years ago. Here in the Local Group, our two largest galaxies dominate: Andromeda and the Milky Way. Our Local Group of […]
Are some of the most particular painting styles in history the result of impoverished vision, or a conscious artistic choice made by the artist?
To get a good night’s sleep, is it better to write down your achievements or the to-do list for the next day? Researchers tested the two different sleep techniques in the lab.
The hallmark of a good scientist is changing your mind when new evidence arises. Here’s what that looks like. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While a […]
Time to build a Corellian shipyard?
A primer on the infinite of knowledge waiting to be learned.
Twenty years ago, Nintendo asked America to try to catch ’em all. We still haven’t (legitimately) captured a Mew.
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought.
The dumb phone revolution is here, and people are joining.
Money may not buy you love, but it won’t break your heart either.
Dark matter is one of the most puzzling, unintuitive concepts in all of physics. But we still need it. Our Universe isn’t like us. While we’re made of atoms, and other […]
Using advanced laser technology, scientists at NASA will track global changes in ice with greater accuracy.
Put down that cell phone before bed. Sleeping with even a little bit of light in your bedroom at night can heighten depression.
A new paper in Nature adds urgency to the fight against climate change.
Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging new or stronger connections with other neurons. But how, exactly, does it do that?
There really is a cosmic conundrum about how fast the Universe is expanding. Changing its age won’t help. One of the most surprising and interesting discoveries of the 21st century is […]
Are we standing on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction?
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
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Astronomers were using images taken by Hubble Space Telescope to study a supernova when they detected an unusually strong source of light later determined to be a star.
A case for looking beyond the planetary scientist’s (or even the astronomer’s) definition. Ever since 2006, when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially defined the term planet — introducing the term ‘dwarf […]