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There's a mysterious asteroid stuck in Mars' gravitational pull, and astronomers suspect it might be the Moon's long-lost twin.

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A Stolen Chunk of Earth’s Moon Seems to Be Orbiting Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force opened a new research lab that it says will enable it to build new resilient, high-strain spacecraft and satellites.

Air Force Opens New Lab for Spacecraft Materials

By Dan Robitzski

An extremophile bacteria survived a year in space. Scientists uncovered how it pulled off the feat, suggesting microbes could travel among planets.

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New Research Shows How a Microbe Could Survive Journey Between Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have presented new evidence that a magnetar within the Milky Way was the source of a strange fast radio burst recorded in April.

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Astronomers Pinpoint Source of Mysterious Radio Burst Signal

By Victor Tangermann

According to scientists, an additional planet located between Saturn and Uranus was yeeted out of the solar system when it was much younger.

New Evidence: There Was Another Planet in the Solar System That Escaped

By Victor Tangermann

After a years-long waiting period, President Donald Trump's ill-advised decision to leave the Paris climate agreement took effect Tuesday.

US Formally Ditches Paris Climate Agreement

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK claim to have achieved first plasma on an upgraded, experimental fusion reactor.

Scientists Just Fired Up an Experimental Fusion Reactor

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers can't definitively rule out the chance that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis crashes into Earth when it returns in 2068.

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There’s a Chance This Giant Asteroid Will Smash Earth in 2068

By Dan Robitzski

A new Amazon patent describes how trolls and toxic gamers could be sequestered into their own matches full of other trolls.

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Amazon Patent Makes the Most Horrible Gamers Play With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.

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NASA: Half the Sun-like Stars in our Galaxy Have Potentially-Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Failing to reach the Paris agreement's goals and heating Earth by two degrees Celsius could trigger the release of 230 billion tons of carbon from the soil.

Our Soil is Poised To Release Billions of Tons of Carbon

By Dan Robitzski

New analysis of ancient Martian meteorites adds 400 million years to our historical knowledge of water on the surface of Mars.

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Martian Meteorites Show Red Planet Had Water Billions of Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

A british company is manufacturing diamonds out of atmospheric CO2 and rainwater in an attempt to reverse environmental damage.

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This Guy Is Creating Actual Diamonds From Reclaimed CO2

By Dan Robitzski

According to researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, our planet will be hit with more prolonged "mega-droughts" thanks to cliamte change.

Scientists: Earth Should Brace Itself For Multi-Decade “Mega-Droughts”

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers pilfered $2.3 million from Trumps re-election campaign by sending it fake invoices supposedly from vendors the Wisconsin GOP worked with.

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Hackers Siphoned $2.3 Million From Trump’s Campaign

By Dan Robitzski

Images taken from satellites reveal that a massive amount of electricity is being wasted just to illuminate cities overnight.

City Uses Satellite to Measure Wasted Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

This Nonprofit Is Making Sunglasses Out of Recovered Ocean Waste

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This Nonprofit Is Making Sunglasses Out of Recovered Ocean Waste

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found some unusual activity coming from a Centaur, or a comet-liked planetary object that orbits deep in our solar system.

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Astronomers Found Unusual Activity on a “Centaur” Planetary Object

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just dropped its hottest mixtape on Soundcloud — and it's super creepy sounds from space just in time for Halloween.

Science & Energy

NASA Releases Playlist of Spooky Space Sounds

By Victor Tangermann

President Trump's re-election campaign website was temporarily defaced by hackers accusing him of spreading fake news and interfering in the 2020 election.

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Trump’s Campaign Site Got Hacked for Spreading “Fake News”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered a massive new coral reef lurking near Australia's Great Barrier Reef for the first time in over 120 years.

Scientists Discover Huge, Unknown Coral Reef

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing the second 'touchdown' site on comet 67P by the Philae lander, ESA scientists were able to gain valauble insights into the nature of comets.

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Final Clues From Derelict Lander: Comet Interior “Extraordinarily Soft”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from the University of Leeds and Edinburgh in the UK have 3D printed the "first ever biomimetic tongue surface."

Scientists 3D Print “Biomimetic” Copy of Human Tongue

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists found that the Arctic is already releasing mass amounts of methane into the air and water, potentially signalling serious climate impacts.

Ah Crap: The Arctic Is Releasing a Ton of New Greenhouse Gas

By Dan Robitzski

A molecular geneticist and quantum biologist argues that our entire conscious experience comes from a field of wayward electromagnetic waves in our brain.

New Research Claims That Consciousness Itself Is an Energy Field

By Dan Robitzski

As the Voyager space probes travel farther outside our solar system, they're passing through increasingly dense regions of interstellar space.

New Voyager Readings: Space Is Much Denser Outside Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an unusual, ancient supermassive black hole that threatens our understanding of the history of the universe.

Scientists Found an Ultra-Rare Black Hole From Almost 12 Billion Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

Using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, a team of NASA scientists spotted a highly unusual molecule in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

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NASA Scientists Spot “Really Unexpected” Molecule in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A "pristine" meteorite that landed in 2018 and was studied before it could be contaminated was chock-full of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

Science & Energy

Scientists: 2018 Michigan Meteorite Was Filled With Organic Compounds

By Dan Robitzski

Trump's Department of Energy has been blocking research on the benefits of renewable energy sources from seeing the light of day.

Renewable Energy

The White House Got Caught Burying Studies About Renewable Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Johns Hopkins University political scientist Daniel Deudney warns that space exploration could give rise to a totalitarian empire — and human extinction.

Johns Hopkins Professor Warns of Totalitarian Military Space Empire

By Dan Robitzski

Finding evidence of water on the Moon is a tantalizing prospect — but only meaningful insofar as we're able to actually make use of it.

Science & Energy

There’s One Big Problem With NASA’s Moon Water Announcement

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists discovered what may be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet, though it's too far away to find out for sure.

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Finally, Scientists Find an Earth-Sized Exoplanet in Its Star’s Habitable Zone

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers from the University of Kansas have discovered evidence for an atmosphere around an extremely hot exoplanet — that shouldn't exist.

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If the Readings Are Right, There’s Something Very Strange About This Exoplanet

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have created a white paint that's so white, it reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight that reaches its surface.

Science & Energy

This Whiter-Than-White Paint Is Like the Opposite of Vantablack

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are preparing to use an ultra-precise atomic clock to hunt oscillations of dark matter several orders of magnitude smaller than ever before.

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks May Be Able to Detect Oscillations of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an ancient, long-gone tectonic plate that they say explains the volcanoes around the northern Pacific.

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Scientists Discover “Lost” Tectonic Plate With Ominous Name

By Dan Robitzski

A search for potential extraterrestrial life on Venus came back with nothing, suggesting variability on the planet or that the first disovery was an error.

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Researchers: Claim of Life Molecules on Venus May Have Been an Error

By Dan Robitzski

Engineer Alexandre Milovanoff argues that electric cars won't stop climate change becuase private cars are inherently a problem.

Researcher: Electric Cars Aren’t the Answer to Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has finally released footage from when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on asteroid Bennu's surface to collect a bunch of space rocks.

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Watch NASA’s Spacecraft Touch Down on a Tiny Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist who won an Ig Nobel for his work on vibrating earthworms with a speaker say their research may be the key to brain-computer interface.

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Scientist: Please Stop Laughing at My Research About Placing Earthworms on Loudspeakers

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.

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Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German physicists managed to pack up light — and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away without altering it in the process.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military to build a rocket that could ship weapons anywhere in the world in one hour.

SpaceX Is Building a Military Rocket to Ship Weapons Anywhere in the World

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to send its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu, a small near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters across, to scoop up a sample.

Science & Energy

Here’s How to Watch as NASA Attempts to Grab a Sample From an Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

Alarming research reveals that each time the Arctic permafrost thawed in the past, it released unimaginable amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

This Is the Devastating Potential of the Arctic Permafrost Melting

By Dan Robitzski

The Hubble Space Telescope just captured a spectacular new image of two galaxies starting to be pulled towards the center of another.

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Hubble Telescope Sees a Cosmic “Waterspout” in This Dazzling New Image

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.

Fusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Out

By Dan Robitzski

Using spinach as a catalyst, a team of scientists built an experimental fuel cell that outperformed conventional platinum cells.

Scientists Built a Fuel Cell Out of Spinach

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government announced that it plans to dump radioactive water stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.

Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

Three percent of SpaceX's Starlink satellites seem to have failed. That's not bad, but it gets dangerous considering how big the constellation will become.

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Three Percent of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Died

By Dan Robitzski

"Doesn't seem to be any life in this solar system," billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a recent tweet, responding to fan mail from a 13-year-old.

Elon Musk: “Doesn’t Seem to Be Any Life in This Solar System”

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, researchers have figured out how to record videos of light moving in three dimensions, shooting at 100 billion frames a second.

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Ultra-Speed Caltech Camera Films Light Moving Through Space in 3D

By Victor Tangermann

For years, astronomers have been speculating that Betelgeuse was about to explode in a supernova. But such an event could still be a long way off.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: This Star Isn’t As Giant As We Thought, Just Closer

By Victor Tangermann

BepiColombo, the European-Japanese spacecraft headed to Mercury, snapped some incredible selfies while making a close flyby past Venus.

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Spacecraft Shoots Epic Selfies With Venus in the Background

By Victor Tangermann

Two massive pieces of space junk might crash into each other on Thursday night, potentially making low Earth orbit and even more dangerous minefield.

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Experts Predict Sizeable Chance of Epic Space Junk Collision Tonight

By Dan Robitzski

The Arctic Ice Project wants to protect and rebuild crucial ice formations by covering the Arctic in reflective glass beads.

The Plan to Sprinkle Reflective Glass Over the Arctic

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered tardigrade can survive dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation, and it glows blue whenever it's exposed.

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Newly-Discovered Tardigrade Glows Blue to Block Deadly Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

$Research shows that fracking releases airborne radioactivity that can be carried great distances to nearby towns on the wind.$

Fracking Releases Airborne Radioactivity, Harvard Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

In a Fox News interview over the phone on Sunday, Trump was asked why the Department of Defense has set up a UFO task force. His answer was perplexing.

Trump Implies That the US Military Could Defeat Aliens If They Show Up

By Victor Tangermann

The US Army is developing augmented reality goggles for dogs to help protect their human guardians by allowing them to command the dog from a distance.

The US Military Developed AR Goggles For Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Bolt Threads is using a special kind of fiber made from mycelium, the underpinning of mushrooms, to create "Mylo," a leather-like material.

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Adidas, Lululemon Say They’ll Make Clothes Out of Mushroom Leather

By Victor Tangermann

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski