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Astronomers have spotted something strange and unexpectedly sad: a rogue planet floating freely in the dark confines of our galaxy.

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An Earth-Sized Planet Is Floating Around Without a Star

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the massive heft of Jupiter may have disturbed Venus's orbit to the point where it was no longer capable of hosting life.

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Research: Jupiter Likely Turned Venus Into an Uninhabitable Hellhole

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk argued that fusion energy will probably be more expensive than wind and solar. Experts are divided.

Elon Musk: Fusion Will Probably Be More Expensive Than Wind, Solar

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just handed out a $14 million dollar contract to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion system in space.

DARPA Is Considering a Nuclear Rocket for Moon Missions

By Victor Tangermann

NASA launched a new citizen science project called Planet Patrol that asks for the public to help identify new exoplanets.

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New Website Lets You Help NASA Find Alien Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that restructuring global society could grant every human on Earth a decent quality of life while cutting energy use to 1960s levels.

We Could Cut Energy use in Half and Still Give 10 Billion People “Decent” Lives

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just spotted a brief, but extremely intense event: a star self-detonating star some 70 million light-years away.

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Hubble Just Watched a Star Explode In a Massive Supernova

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Russian scientists suspects supermassive black holes may be traversible wormholes, and they have a plan to actually find out.

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Physicists: Supermassive Black Holes May Actually Be Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

Earth will likely capture a new minimoon in its orbit later this year. But signs suggest that it's actually a hunk of space garbage.

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Earth Appears to Be Capturing a Tiny New Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientists found that crows have conscious and subjective experiences, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence and human superiority.ogical constraints

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Scientists Claim to Have Proved That Crows Have Conscious Experiences

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists warn that as climate change progresses, even traditionally wet and humid forests around the world could be consumed by worsening fires.

Scientists Warn: Someday, Even Wet Forests Could Burn

By Dan Robitzski

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf suggests that it would be much easier to find intelligent extraterrestrial life while it's facing the apocalypse.

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Scientist: Aliens Facing the Apocalypse Would Be Easier to Find

By Dan Robitzski

As their eerie name suggests, "zombie storms" occurs when strong tropical climates cause storms to come back from the dead.

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National Weather Service Warns of “Zombie Storms”

By Victor Tangermann

A new enzyme, which is really a hybrid of two others, can break down plastic waste six times faster than the next best one.

Scientists Create Enzyme That Devours Plastic at Incredible Speed

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a meteoroid briefly visited our planet before bouncing off our atmosphere like a stone skipping across a lake.

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Watch a Meteoroid Bounce Off the Earth’s Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

An outrageously strange paper claims, among other things, that there's a black hole at the center of the Earth. Sometthing's fishy.

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Strange Research Paper Claims There’s a Black Hole at the Center of the Earth

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists measured the mass of 1,800 galaxy clusters to get the most precise number for how much matter is in the universe yet.

Scientists Calculated How Much Matter Is in the Whole Universe

By Dan Robitzski

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.

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Scientists Just Found Three More Reservoirs of Liquid Water on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Army officials want to upgrade SpaceX's Starlink satellites to serve as a navigational network more precise and secure than GPS.

The US Military Wants Access to SpaceX’s Satellite Constellation

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force just awarded a contract to develop lasers that can detonate landmines and other hazards from a safe distance.

The Air Force Is Getting a Laser That Detonates Landmines From Afar

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that personally experiencing wildfires makes people more likely to support anti-climate change policy, regardless of political leanings.

Scientists: When People Experience Climate Change Firsthand, They Get Serious About It

By Dan Robitzski

After about a year, NASA and Roscosmos have just about narrowed down the source of the ongoing air leak on the International Space Station.

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NASA Says It’s Almost Found the Leak on the International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

When the world around them quieted down, white-crowned sparrows living near San Francisco learned a new, more intricate song.

Birds Learned a New Song During the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Investigations reveal that hundreds of elephants died due to cyanobacteria, toxic microscopic algae found in larger bodies of blue-green water.

Hundreds of Elephants Suddenly Dropped Dead Because of Neurotoxin, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

To fight climate change, experts suggest gene-hacking plants and animals to cut emissions and better sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

Report: Gene-Hacking Plants and Animals Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

In a recently uploaded preprint, researchers argue that the discovery of phosphine on Venus could be chalked up to asteroids grazing Earth's atmosphere.

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Life May Have Hopped From Earth to Venus on Asteroid, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Space debris could pose an even bigger threat than we thought, thanks to new research that found smaller pieces of junk that were never cataloged.

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Research: Most Geosynchronous Space Junk Has Never Been Catalogued

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they may have discovered an exoplanet that resembles Saturn in another galaxy, but it could be decades before they know for sure.

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Scientists Claim to Find First-Ever Planet in Another Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists claim they have determined a way to figure out if there's life living underground on faraway places, including the Moon and Mars.

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Harvard Study: We Shouldn’t Rule Out Underground Life on the Moon and Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Police reportedly trained a dog to sniff out electronic storage devices, which cops claim helps them find hidden digital evidence.

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Police Trained a Dog to Sniff Out Electronic Evidence

By Dan Robitzski

California governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order today that calls for a complete ban of the sale of any new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.

California Is Banning All Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars in Just 15 Years

By Victor Tangermann

Wikipedia is gettings its first major redesign in a decade, with changes scheduled to slowly trickle out over the coming years.

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Please No: They’re Redesigning Wikipedia

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have turned the first ever image of a black hole released last year into a short animation by digging through their archives.

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Astrophysicists Release Landmark “Movie” of Wobbling Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Tuesday that China would attempt to go completely carbon neutral by the year 2060.

China Suddenly Pledges to Become Completely Carbon Neutral

By Dan Robitzski

The United States Space Force plans to swear NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins into its ranks during a ceremony aboard the International Space Station.

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The International Space Station Had to Dodge a Piece of Space Junk Last Night

By Dan Robitzski

By digging through infrared images of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, scientists have found "strong evidence" of "fresh ice" in its northern hemisphere.

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NASA Finds Evidence of “Fresh Ice” on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

By Victor Tangermann

When Congress allocated $1 billion to the Pentagon to shore up medical supplies, it instead funneled the money to military contractors.

The US Military Used Emergency Coronavirus Money to Buy Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of scientists has some guesses for how any theoretical life hiding away under the acid clouds of Venus might have originated.

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Scientists Speculate About How Life on Venus Could Have Begun

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that rats let out a high-pitch squeak when they're happy, giving a rare, measurable window into animal well-being.

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Finally: Scientists Discover Which Rats Like to Be Tickled

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spotted some strangely light colored rocks on the surface of asteroid Bennu — likely from an entirely different asteroid.

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Astronomers Spot Bits of Entirely Different Asteroid on Surface of Bennu

By Victor Tangermann

Research reveals that the west coast of India and Pakistan — where both countries operate nuclear power plants — are particularly vulnerable to tsunamis.

Scientists Warn That Indian, Pakistani Nuclear Plants Could Get Wrecked by Tsunamis

By Dan Robitzski

The wealthiest one percent in the world emits twice the carbon as does the poorer half of the Earth's population, revealing stark global inequalities.

The Richest One Percent Emits Twice as Much Carbon as Half the World

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change is interfering with sensitive observatories and telescopes, making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos.

Astronomers Complain That Climate Change Is Making Telescopes Worse

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a "pi Earth," an Earth-sized planet that orbits its star every 3.14 Earth days.

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Astronomers Discover “Pi Earth” Planet That Orbits Every 3.14 Days

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took a gorgeous new close-up image of Jupiter some 406 million miles from Earth, with Europa off to the left.

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Hubble Catches Massive New Storm Brewing on Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

The dimmer version of SpaceX's Starlink satellites are still too bright in the sky for astronomers to conduct their research.

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SpaceX’s Darker Starlink Satellites Are Still Ruining Astronomers’ Research

By Dan Robitzski

Smoke from the devastating wildfires that have swept across the West Coast this past week has now reportedly drifted all the way across the United States.

West Coast Wildfire Smoke Hits NYC, Causing Weird-Looking Sunsets

By Jon Christian

Private New Zealand-based space company Rocket Lab is already working on sending a probe to Venus's atmosphere to look for signs of life.

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Life on Venus? This Rocket Company Is Already Planning a Mission to Have a Closer Look

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, acidic fluids may have long destroyed evidence of past biological life inside Martian clay on the Red Planet's surface.

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Acids May Have Destroyed Evidence of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Designers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have created the "Living Cocoon," a moss-filled, "living" coffin made out of fungus.

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This Moss-Filled Coffin Is Made Out of Fungus

By Victor Tangermann

In a CNN opinion piece, Sarah Seager, member of the team that announced it had found evidence for life on Venus, argues that the discovery is "crazy."

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Scientist Behind Venus Life Claim Describes It as “Crazy”

By Victor Tangermann

Some experts are currently sounding the alarm, arguing that what we're seeing are the early days of increasingly lethal extreme weather and fires.

Scientists Warn That Fires, Extreme Weather Events Are Getting Worse

By Jon Christian

Authorities say that groups of killer whales have been attacking boats in the Straits of Gibraltar, the area between Spain and Morocco.

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Gangs of Ferocious Killer Whales Are Attacking Boats

By Jon Christian

Some carbon-rich exoplanets could be made out of diamonds and silica, according to a new study published recently in The Planetary Science Journal.

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Scientists: There Are Likely Entire Planets Made Out of Diamond and Silica

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered significant sources of phosphine, colorless and odorless gas, in the atmosphere of Venus — a possible sign of life.

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Breaking: Researchers Discover Signs of Life on Venus

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, dark matter may be an even bigger mystery than we initially thought. The theoretical maps aren't lining up with observations.

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Dark Matter’s Effect Is 10x What It Should Be, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

AmazonBasics products seem to have a troublesome tendency to explode or catch fire. Despite that, many troublesome products are still avaialbe online.

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Amazon Products Are Reportedly Exploding and Catching Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Colleges that pivoted to online education still need to find out how to do science labwork — some are mailing animal parts to students to dissect at home.

Colleges Are Mailing Brains to Students to Dissect at Home

By Dan Robitzski

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.

Japan Battles Wild Monkeys at Site of Nuclear Meltdown

By Dan Robitzski

Anduril, a defense-tech startup founded by Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey, has unveiled a new drone called the Ghost 4.

New Military Drone Fits in Backpack, Can Carry Lasers, Radio Jammers, Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists suggests that meteor impact craters could have offered the perfect conditions for life on Earth to emerge.

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Scientists: Life on Earth Likely Started in Meteor Craters

By Dan Robitzski

While scientists predicted that forests would continue to serve as carbon sinks, the benefits may be short-lived as too much CO2 makes trees die younger.

Too Much CO2 Is Killing Trees, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got an up-close look at the asteroid Bennu as it crumbled apart and left a trail of debris and particles in its wake.

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NASA Got an Up-Close Look at an Asteroid Crumbling Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Major wildfires are blanketing the West Coast right now, turning the skies an apocalyptic shade of orange. Parts of the Bay Area are seeing snowing ash.

The Skies in California Basically Look Like the Apocalypse Right Now

By Victor Tangermann