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A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.

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Astronomers: Our Planet Might Have Another Moon, Except It’s Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a nuclear-powered rocket to move cargo around Earth's orbit.

DARPA’s Working on a Nuclear-Powered Rocket for Easy Moon Access

By Jon Christian

Space Force Lt. General David Thompson clarifies what, exactly, the new military branch does, and how it plans to work with private companies.

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Space Force Working “Pretty Closely With Elon Musk and SpaceX”

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals a bizarre link: on days that solar storms mess with the magnetic field, more gray whales beach themselves.

Solar Storms May Cause Whales to Crash Into Beaches

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian fusion startup called HB11 claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear fusion technology. A bold statement.

Fusion Startup Claims Breakthrough Will Provide “Unlimited” Energy

By Victor Tangermann

As crewed missions to space venture deeper and deeper, two scientists argue that space agencies ought not to ignore astronauts' human needs.

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Scientists: Unfortunately, Astronauts Will Need to Bone in Space

By Dan Robitzski

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the coronavirus outbreak could get worse if countries don't nip it in the bud.

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Scientists Find “Mysterious” Virus With Almost No Known Genes

By Kristin Houser

Prominent investment bank JP Morgan Chase has sent a report to clients warning that climate change could have cataclysmic effects on civilization.

JP Morgan Warns Clients of “Catastrophic” Environmental Collapse

By Jon Christian

Scientists have published a stark warning: If humankind doesn't manage to save the global bug population, it could spell doom for us all.

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Scientists Warn “Insect Apocalypse” Could Doom Humanity

By Jon Christian

Touring musicians have a large carbon footprint, the New Yorker writes, so eco-conscious bands are working to lower their environmental impact.

Touring Musicians Are Brutal on the Environment

By Natalie Coleman

Japanese space agency JAXA announced today it has greenlit a sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos called the Martian Moons Exploration mission.

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Japan Gives the ‘Go’ to Sample Return Mission to Mars Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A flair in outer space may be a sign of a phenomenon first proposed in 2017: two massive black holes, wrapping around each other on a collision course.

Flaring Object in Space May Be Two Supermassive Black Holes Colliding

Quantum physicists have figured out a way to "hold" individual atoms in place, offering up an unprecedented look at the way they interact with each other.

Quantum Physicists “Hold” Individual Atoms in Place for First Time

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers and citizen scientists discovered a never-before-classified species of rare snail and named it after climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Scientists Discover New Snail, Name It After Greta Thunberg

All coral reefs across the planet will likely be dead in 80 years — killed by a combination of warming waters and ocean acidification.

New Research: All Coral Reefs May Be Completely Dead by 2100

By Jon Christian

Fifty years later, scientists debunked the idea that dinosaur footprints left on the ceiling of an Australian cave were left by one walking upside down.

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No, Researchers Conclude, This Dinosaur Did Not Walk Upside Down

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have created tiny solar powered wings that can flap faster than butterfly wings and only need sunlight as a power source.

These Tiny, Solar-Powered Wings Flap Faster Than a Butterfly’s

By Victor Tangermann

In Ecuador, one of South America's most active, angry volcanos — given the not-at-all-terrifying name 'Throat of Fire' — is on the verge of collapse.

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Ecuador’s “Throat of Fire” Volcano Terrifyingly Near Collapse

By Foster Kamer

MIT researchers have a new plan to scout out and divert killer asteroids before they pose a threat. It boils down to knocking them off course with a rocket.

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MIT Proposes New Plans for Deflecting Killer Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's intelligence agency reportedly sent agents to insepct undersea internet cables around Dublin, a major tech hub, causing fears over wiretapping.

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Russian Intelligence Is Snooping Around Undersea Internet Cables

By Dan Robitzski

Human composting is becoming more popular, and according to the BBC, it may be a better choice for the environment as well.

Human Composting is Better for the Environment

If investors and business leaders, especially those in the energy sector, continue to ignore climate change, they might tank the economy.

Research: Extreme Weather Could Crash the Economy

By Dan Robitzski

German scientists say that for the first time ever, they've created a lab-grown artificial genome that can reproduce itself like a living organism.

Scientists Create Artificial Genome That Can Reproduce

By Jon Christian

In an Instagram post, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced he is dedicating $10 billion of his net worth to combat climate change.

Bezos Coughs Up Pathetic 7% of Net Worth to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

The director of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory told the BBC that alien hunting for extra terrestrials should be taken more seriously.

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SETI Scientist: Nobody Takes Alien Hunting Seriously

By Victor Tangermann

Delta just threw down a carbon-neutral pledge at a first-class price: $1 billion over ten years. Is it a realistic ambition, or a pie-in-the-sky dream?

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Uh, Delta Just Threw Down a $1 Billion Carbon-Neutral Pledge

By Foster Kamer

Swiss startup Energy Vault wants to overcome the limitations of lithium-ion batteries by storing wind and solar energy by stacking massive brick towers.

Here’s How to Store Wind and Solar Energy Using Just Gravity

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists has nearly dug deep enough inside Earth to tap into a reservoir of supercritical fluid, which could serve as a limitless power supply.

This Team Wants to Capture Unlimited Energy From Inside the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency releaed a troubling time-lapse video showing a gigantic iceberg splitting off of Antarctica and drifting away.

Watch a Las Vegas-Sized Iceberg Break Off Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

The asteroid belt will get turned into dust when, as the Sun is finally dying, it will get incredibly bright, and destroy ithe entire asteroid belt. Fun!

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In Its Dying Gasp, Our Sun Will Obliterate the Asteroid Belt

By Jon Christian

An executive order mobilized the entire U.S. military to prepare for a potential COVID-19 pandemic, should the outbreak ever progress to that point.

US Military Issues Executive Order to Prevent COVID-19 Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the Associated Press reports.

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

By Victor Tangermann

An attempt to make his car "invisible" using the license plate "NULL" actually put a security researcher on the hook for $18,000 of other people's tickets.

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This Guy Got the License Plate “NULL” and It Was a Total Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

Soon after the launch of Pokémon Go, players reportedly began wandering onto Canadian military property in pursuit of the game's virtual creatures.

Pokémon Go Led to a Surge in Trespassers on Military Bases

By Kristin Houser

An astrophysicist has designed a stellar engine that could move Earth's entire solar system from one part of the Milky Way to another.

This “Stellar Engine” Would Move an Entire Solar System

By Kristin Houser

Australia's New South Wales police force has charged 24 arsonists for deliberately starting bushfires contributing to the nation's ongoing emergency.

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Australia Arrests Dozens for Starting Bushfires on Purpose

By Kristin Houser

Four newly-discovered sharks use their fins to crawl across coral reefs — and can also walk across short stretches of dry land.

Sharks Are Evolving to Walk on Land

By Dan Robitzski

Climatologist Alan Robock from Rutgers University and his team studied what an all-out nuclear war between world nations could look like.

Here’s Exactly How Screwed You’d Be in a Nuclear Apocalypse

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization

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Harvard Prof: Deep Space Signal May Be From Alien Civilization

By Jon Christian

According to a study published earlier this month in journal Genome Biology and Evolution, woolly mammoth genes had many bad mutations from inbreeding.

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So, Uh, the Last Woolly Mammoths Were Inbred, Mutated Wretches

By Foster Kamer

What’s The Highest Known Temperature?

What’s The Highest Known Temperature?

By Jolene Creighton

In October 2019, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to snap a photo of a massive active dust devil — and you can now see it for yourself.

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NASA Snaps Photo of Epic Dust Devil on the Surface of Mars

By Kristin Houser

Rather than euthanize lab animals after testing, the Food and Drug Administration is now allowing sanctuaries and shelters to adopt the critters.

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You Can Now Adopt Lab Animals That the FDA Experimented On

By Kristin Houser

Journals have retracted seven papers co-authored by spider researcher Jonathan Pruitt after his co-authors find evidence he falsified data.

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Scientist Who Said Spiders Have Personalities May Have Faked Data

By Kristin Houser

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.

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Next NASA Mars Rover Will Sport a Rock-Vaporizing Laser

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers built a kind of generator that gives off a powerful burst of energy whenever it's hit by falling rain.

Scientists Invent Device to Generate Electricity From Rain

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence researchers are studying the brain waves and eye movements of gamers to train an AI that can control fleets of military robots.

DARPA Is Using Gamers’ Brain Waves to Train Robot Swarms

By Kristin Houser

A team of Cornell University researchers have spotted a fast radio signal source that pulses on an astonishingly regular 16-day cycle.

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Powerful Radio Signal From Distant Galaxy Seems to Have a Pattern

By Victor Tangermann

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shared a dire warning that the planet is descending into conflcit and instability, but a better future is possible.

UN Secretary-General: “A Wind of Madness Is Sweeping the Globe”

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a binary star system called HD101584 after a particularly violent and close fly-by.

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This Epic Star Battle Looks Like Something From a “Thor” Movie

By Victor Tangermann

Assuming the vacuum of space didn't prevent sound from traveling, what would the Sun sound like? Turns out, it might be rather annoying...

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If Sound Traveled Through Space, the Sun Would Be Extremely Annoying

The US Navy is looking to arm nuclear submarines with high-energy laser weapons, according to Popular Mechanics. It won't reveal why.

The US Navy Wants to Arm Nuclear Submarines With Laser Cannons

By Victor Tangermann

The U.S. Army is working with chemists to develop fabrics that can absorb and neutralize nerve agents for use in future military uniforms.

The US Army Is Developing Fabrics That Neutralize Nerve Agents

By Kristin Houser

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

Surgeons Gave This Adorable Cat Four Amazing 3D-Printed Paws

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers identified a major flaw in the U.S. government's plan to store nuclear waste: groundwater can eat away at storage containers and cause leaks.

Nuclear Waste Storage Containers Break Down When Exposed to Water

By Dan Robitzski

Several climate change simulations predict drastically worse warming per level of greenhouse gas emissions, suggesting the problem is worse than thought.

Several Climate Change Simulations Just Snapped Into Doomsday Mode

By Dan Robitzski

An updated NASA animation reveals what the world would look like if all of Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes slowly vanished.

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Amazing Vid Shows How Earth Would Look If All Its Oceans Dried Up

By Dan Robitzski

Research teams have discovered dust grains older than our solar system in two meteorites that landed on separate parts of the Earth in 1969.

Materials Older Than the Solar System Found in Two Meteorites

By Kristin Houser

There’s something remarkably human in our search for aliens among the stars and goal of learning more about life in general to learn more about ourselves.

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Could Searching for Alien Life Attract Hostile Extraterrestrials?

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have released into the wild a strain of genetically engineered diamondback moths that could suppress the pest population in a sustainable way.

Scientists Release Genetically Engineered Moths for First Time

By Kristin Houser

There's a decent chance that two satellites will collide this evening, potentially releasing a cloud of hazardous debris into orbit.

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Two Satellites May Collide Today, Exploding Catastrophically

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just released the highest resolution images of the Sun's surface ever taken using the largest solar telescope in the world.

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The Highest Def Photo of the Sun Looks Like Caramel Popcorn

By Victor Tangermann

A new study has found that the Pacific Ocean's increasingly acidic water is dissolving the shells of newly hatched Dungeness crabs.

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The Ocean Is Getting so Acidic That It’s Dissolving Crabs’ Shells

By Kristin Houser