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NASA recently discovered an exoplanet the size of Neptune that whips around its star nearly once per week, all while being bombarded by solar storms.

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NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Whipping Around Star Every Week

By Dan Robitzski

In the coming years, NASA plans to crash a SpaceX rocket into a tiny moon as a test run for diverting asteroids. But the moon's name was way too boring.

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NASA Renames Small Moon It Plans to Smash With SpaceX

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just caught the "bat shadow" of a newborn star moving, as if it was a pair of flapping bat wings.

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NASA Says Hubble Observed a “Flapping Shadow” in Distant Space

By Victor Tangermann

Composer Brian Eno took recordings of the acoustic waves given off by stars and sped them up into a haunting new arrangement.

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This Music Made by Stars Is Actually Extremely Beautiful

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees finally identified climate change as a reason refugees are forced out of their homes.

For the First Time, UN Warns of “Climate-Related” Refugees

By Dan Robitzski

The US Senate Intelligence Committee wants US intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to release all data relating to "unidentified aerial phenomenon."

Congress Is Trying to Force the Military to Release More UFO Info

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists assume the first life on Earth used RNA and that DNA developed later. But an experiment suggests both genetic molecules formed at the same time.

Experiment Shows That DNA May Have Existed Before Life

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Harvard astronomers are collaborating on a new project to scan the skies for signs of technological signatures from alien civilizations.

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NASA Funds Harvard Hunt for Alien “Technological Civilizations”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of experts discovered an unusual celestial object that's 2.6 solar masses, too big to be a neutron star, too small to be a black hole.

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Astronomers May Have Discovered First-Ever “Black Neutron Star”

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists recently tested and validated the 50-year-old theory that dangling objects into a black hole then releasing them would generate power.

You Could Generate Power by Dangling Crap Into a Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, Pluto may have started its life as a hot world with a massive underground ocean of liquid water.

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Scientists: There’s Evidence Pluto Has an Underground Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

A new study outlines a new discovery of a surprisingly young hot Jupiter class exoplanet called HIP 67522 b, some 490 light-years from Earth.

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This Super Young Jupiter-Sized ‘Hot Planet’ is Puzzling Astronomers

By Victor Tangermann

Rather than relying on GPS satellites, scientists propose using neutron stars, the dead remains of exploded stars, as "cosmic lighthouses."

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“Cosmic Lighthouses” Could Help Astronauts Navigate Space

By Victor Tangermann

While working from home during the ongoing global pandemic, biologists have plenty of time — and they're discovering new insect species left and right.

Biologists Are Somehow Discovering a Ton of New Species in Quarantine

By Victor Tangermann

A new system makes carbon capture more feasible for power plants and can convert carbon emissions into raw materials for fuel.

New Tech Captures Power Plant Exhaust to Generate More Power

By Dan Robitzski

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Realistic, Interactive VR Sex Is Finally Here, and It’s Affordable

By Futurism Creative

A team of researchers claim to have achieved quantum teleportation using individual electrons. The discovery could revolutionize quantum computing.

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Scientists Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation Using Electrons

By Victor Tangermann

CERN wants a bigger, better particle collider. But with no guarantee for breakthrough discoveries, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder says don't bother.

Physicist Pleads: Stop Building Stupid, Expensive Particle Colliders

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's New Horizons space probe is so far away from Earth that it can see stars from entirely different angles than ever before.

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NASA Spacecraft so Far Away It Can See Stars from Different Angle

By Dan Robitzski

A telescope called eROSITA on board the Spektr-RG space observatory has captured breathtaking X-ray observations of the entire sky.

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This X-Ray Map of the Entire Sky Is a Psychedelic Dreamworld

By Victor Tangermann

A new Defense Department report identifies Russia and China's nuclear capabilities as an immediate threat to U.S. satellites.

The Pentagon Is Worried a Space Nuke Will Fry Its Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers made several new discoveries about what stars go through as they're dying thanks to new images by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Hubble Captures Heartbreaking Images of Dying Stars

By Victor Tangermann

When it comes time to stop a killer asteroid, scientists suggest tethering it to a second asteroid to send it away, just like tying shoelaces together.

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New Plan to Deflect Killer Asteroids: Tie Their Shoelaces Together

By Dan Robitzski

A power company in the U.K. is building the world's largest liquid air battery, which stores energy in the form of highly-compressed air.

This Giant Battery Is Powered by Compressed Air

By Dan Robitzski

To study how early humans related to Neanderthals, a team of European scientists grew mini brains from human stem cells that contain Neanderthal DNA.

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Scientists Grow Petri Dish Mini-Brains With Neanderthal DNA

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have long suggested that the arrangement of galaxies through the universe was steered by something called quantum static. Now they can test it.

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Strange Theory: Entire Universe Structured by “Quantum Static”

By Dan Robitzski

If bee populations continue to drop, a team of scientists says they can pollinate plants with soap bubble-launching drones.

New Trick Could Save Agriculture Even If All the Bees Keep Dying

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a star that resembles our Sun so nearly that it's almost like a mirror of our solar system.

Astronomers Discover “Mirror Image” of Our Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists Say They’ve Found Evidence of Elusive Axion Particle

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Physicists Say They’ve Found Evidence of Elusive Axion Particle

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that strange bright spots observed on Saturn's moon Titan in the early 2000s may be evidence of dried up ancient lakes and seas.

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Astronomers Say They Found “Dry Lake Beds” on Saturn’s Moon Titan

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers has found that the red supergiant star Antares is even more gigantic than we thought.

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This Star Is So Huge that Saturn’s Orbit Would Fit Inside It

By Victor Tangermann

On Monday, an unusual fireball streaked across the sky over Australia, leaving astronomers wondering whether they saw an incinerating satellite or a meteor.

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Watch a Mysterious Blue Fireball Scream Over Australia

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, there could be as many as six billion Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars in our galaxy.

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Study: There Could be 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

New animation tech can create a virtual represenation of a dog after filming it with a single camera, no motion capture suit needed.

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New Motion Capture Tech Could Digitize Your Dog Into Video Games

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers probing the night sky for signs of dark energy discovered almost 21,000 new, extremely-dim galaxies.

Dark Energy Researchers Discover Nearly 21,000 New Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter probe just made its first close approach of the Sun, getting to 47.8 million miles from the star's surface.

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A Space Probe Just Took the Closest Pictures of the Sun Ever

By Victor Tangermann

According to retired NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, the global failure to contain COVID-19 could be a teachable moment for asteroid impact planning.

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Astronaut: Killer Asteroid Plan Must Be Better Than COVID Response

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have identified a green glow in the atmosphere of Mars caused by oxygen atoms being released from carbon dioxide due to sunlight.

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Scientists Detect Green Glow on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

New Research: There Could Be 36 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy

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New Research: There Could Be 36 Alien Civilizations in Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, astronomers were able to watch the entire, weeks-long process of a neutron star absorbing matter and creating a powerful x-ray blast.

Astronomers Watch Neutron Star “Charge Up” Before Huge X-ray Blast

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are closing in on a 13-billion-year-old signal from the "dark age" of the universe, an ancient era from before stars had formed.

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Scientists Hunting For Signs of the “Dark Age” Before Stars Formed

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers say they've used cutting-edge imaging techniques to discover huge, "unexpected" structures near the Earth's core

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Scientists Discover “Unexpected” Structures Near Earth’s Core

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists recreated the conditions under which life originated. They think they've kickstarted the whole process by generating new vesicles.

Scientists Claim to Have Recreated Earth’s First Life

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that a bizarre quasiparticle can reproduce by splitting in two and self-repairing like a biological cell would.

Bizarre Subatomic “Quasiparticle” Reproduces Like a Living Cell

By Dan Robitzski

In 2010, a scientist published research suggesting that 2020 would be a total shitshow. It goes without saying he really nailed it.

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A 2010 Scientific Paper Predicted That 2020 Would Be a Shitshow

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre star system: a collapsed pulsar and white dwarf binary orbiting a second white dwarf, upheld a major tenet of Einstein's general relativity.

Collapsed Star Proves Another of Einstein’s Theories

By Dan Robitzski

Dario Gil, the director of IBM Research, predicts that quantum computing app stores and code repositories will begin to emerge this decade.

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IBM Director: Get Ready For Quantum Computing App Stores

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that water vapor in the atmosphere has the potential to become a viable source of renewable energy.

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Scientists Say You Could Charge Batteries Using Humidity

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix was way ahead in registering a trademark for "Space Force" than the military, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Oops: Netflix Trademarked “Space Force” Before the US Military

By Victor Tangermann

In order to give high-energy researchers better working conditions, one physicist proposes building a particle collider on the Moon.

This Madlad Wants to Build a Particle Collider on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists just linked a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms together through quantum entanglement, and they think the technique could help find dark matter.

Scientists Quantum Entangled a Record-Breaking 15 Trillion Atoms

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just discovered that Saturn's moon Titan is creeping out into space 100 times faster than they previously thought it was.

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Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Drifting Off Into Space, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

New research into the effects of dark energy suggests that our universe is flat rather than bubble-like. The finding may finally settle the Hubble constant.

Scientists Claim the Universe Is Actually Flat

By Dan Robitzski

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.

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NASA Snaps Closeup Shots of Potential Asteroid Landing Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists under lockdown revisited an Einstein ring discovered in 1987 to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of space.

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This Quasar Warps Itself Into a Ring by Distorting Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have discovered a "fast radio burst" (FRB) signal, mysterious flashes of millisecond wave energy, that repeats itself every 157 days

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Astronomers Record Signal Coming From Deep Space Every 157 Days

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists managed to directly observe the flow of light as it traveled through a nonoscopic crystal.

New Microscope Is So Powerful It Can Watch Light Move

By Dan Robitzski

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.

Solar Panel-Like Device Generates Power From Darkness

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked human cells to fully integrate that structures that let some squids turn transparent, giving the cells the ability to scatter light.

Scientists Gene-Hack Human Cells to Turn Invisible

By Dan Robitzski

The National Guard and law enforcement flew surveillance planes above the heads of thousands of protesters marching in solidarity of George Floyd.

Cops Are Using Military Spy Planes to Surveil BLM Protesters

By Victor Tangermann

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

Building on existing research, researchers suggest that Mars' moon Deimos will likely be split up into tiny rocks, forming a ring around the planet.

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New Research: Mars May Have Once Had Rings

By Victor Tangermann

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.

Here’s How Deadly Military Tech Ended up in Police Hands

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the early universe was spinning around multiple axes, influencing the direction in which galaxies rotate.

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Evidence Suggests That the Entire Early Universe Was Rotating

By Dan Robitzski