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The ESA is launching a space telescope called CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite) on Tuesday to study distant planets.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey of the center of the Milky Way challenges what astronomers have long thought about how stars formed in the region.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A hundred lights that have appeared and disappeared in the night sky over the past 70 years could be signs of the existence of aliens.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Scientists just spotted MAMBO-9. The ancient galaxy's light just reached Earth after a 13 billion year-long journey through space.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, NASA built a complete map of the surface of a neutron star, giving astronomers a new resource as they try to understand the cosmos.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Nonprofit New Story has unveiled the first 3D-printed houses in what will eventually be a community boasting 50 of the unique homes.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

The Milky Way might be home to two black holes and not just one — and researchers have a plan for detecting Sagittarius A*'s "hidden friend."
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Russia is launching a center devoted to monitoring meteors, comets, and asteroids to ensure they don't collide with Earth.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A true mad scientist bred 97 different kinds of broccoli and mapped their DNA. The verdict? all of them were "delicious."
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of physicists have come up with a solution to the time travel paradox that requires a very large — but not infinite — number of parallel histories.
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

A new study reveals that extreme weather events have been linked, almost without fail, to the worsening effects of climate change.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A viral video uploaded on Wednesday by college student Erica Church shows her physics professor David Wright jovially pull off some amazing tricks in class.
Physics

By Victor Tangermann

New radar maps and digital models reveal a massive underground valley beneath Greenland, including a thousand-mile-long "Dark River."
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.
Evolution

By Kristin Houser

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

After analyzing the atmospheres of 19 exoplanets, researchers determined that 14 contained water vapor — more than they'd anticipated.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has resurfaced his idea to turn 10,000 square miles in the U.S. desert into a solar farm that can power the entire nation.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

TIME magazine has chosen 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its 2019 Person of the Year for launching a global movement.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

The World Wildlife Fund published a report arguing that if we want to stop the worst impacts of climate change, world leaders need to take stronger action.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

NVIDIA has built an AI that can create a detailed 3D model of an object in less than 100 milliseconds from just a single image of it.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

Scientists encoded instructions for creating a 3D-printed plastic bunny in DNA and then embedded the DNA right in the bunny itself.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is reportedly testing bullets that can be shot underwater.
Military

By Victor Tangermann

Elizabeth Warren just announced a package of environmental protection policies focused on the ocean that she's calling the Blue New Deal.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

a recent discovery about 1,600-foot space rock Bennu has scientists scratching their heads: it keeps spitting up small asteroid particles.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Tennessee Aquarium's electric eel, Miguel Wattson, can control the lights on a Christmas tree next to his tank through his shocks.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Scientists built a new remote acoustic survey tool to track wild frog populations. The best part is they decided to name it the FrogPhone.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

The Centers for Disease Control has released a list of vaping brands EVALI sufferers said they used prior to contracting the lung disease.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A woman developed a rare disease called "cobalt lung" after vaping marijuana for just six months, according to a new case study.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Oregon startup Silo Wellness created a nasal spray that delivers precise amounts of the magic mushroom compound psilocybin with each pump for microdosing.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Scientists found that a single-celled organism could live off of materials from meteorites, which could help in our hunt to find alien life in space.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered a giant exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf — the extremely dense remains of an exploded dead star.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists observed surprisingly complex behavior from a single-celled organism that strongly resembles active decisionmaking.
Biology

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA-funded scientist Christoffer Heckman argues that some sort of new guidelines are needed to keep engineers from building autonomous weapons.
DARPA

By Dan Robitzski

Four new papers reveal new findings from NASA's Parker Solar Probe that could rewrite the way we understand the way stars are born, evolve, and die.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS captured footage of a comet suddenly exploding in a bizarre phenomenon called a comet outburst.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese construction company Winsun has finished building a 3D-printed river revetment more than 500 meters (1,640 feet) long.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers developed a new trick that will help them determine whether so-called Earth-like exoplanets actually have their own atmospheres.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

New studies suggest that planet-wide dust storms and gigantic plumes called dust towers could have sucked up the planet's surface water.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers stole the personal data of women who bought plus-size clothing, selling the records to online advertisers who can now target the victims.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon just unveiled its new quantum computer cloud service, Braket, which will give developers a chance to test out their quantum applications.
Quantum Physics

By Dan Robitzski

A new study found that fish would flock to dead coral reefs if researchers blasted the sounds of a healthy reef from nearby underwater speakers.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

NASA is about to test a prototype cosmic radiation-blocking vest by strapping it to a dummy and sending ti around the Moon.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos announced plans to build an observatory on its planned Moon base so that it can better spot potentially dangerous asteroids approaching Earth.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have spotted a gigantic black hole 70 times the mass of the Sun in our galaxy — way bigger than expected.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Department released a new report detailing its goals and plans for creating cyborg soldiers by the year 2050.
Military

By Dan Robitzski

Russian farmers strapped VR headsets onto their cows to see if pleasant virtual worlds would improve their milk. So far, all they know is the cows liked it.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just sent a torrent of letters warning there's no evidence that CBD use has the medical benefits that companies claim, and it's in fact dangerous.
Chemistry

By Dan Robitzski

Signs that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is on its deathbed actually represent normal activity for the storm, scientists now say.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new U.N. climate report details how many countries have totally failed to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and argues that dire action is needed.
Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

A study suggests that there could be thousands of giant exoplanets and planets that form around and orbit a supermassive black hole.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers have detected three supermassive black holes at the core of a galaxy — and the discovery could solve a universal mystery.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Scientists discovered fossils left behind in an ancient meteorite that reveal how ice was distributed throughout the early, still-forming solar system.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new report found that whales are incredibly adept at absorbing carbon dioxide, meaning their preservation should be a top climate priority.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Musk's mind is already racing far ahead, imagining a bright, renewable energy-fuelled future featuring a cybertruck cladded in solar panels.
Solar Power

By Victor Tangermann

New research has determined that nearly extreme black holes can have "hair" — but the defining characteristic doesn't last long.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new deepfake shows what it would have looked like if the Apollo 11 mission failed and then-president Nixon had to deliver the backup speech he had ready.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon is covered in lunar swirls — magnetic anomalies that could act as natural shields from dangerous cosmic radiation.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NATO has added space as its fifth operational military domain, meaning the organization will now protect member nations' off-world interests.
Military

By Kristin Houser

An app called Spelfie can take a picture of you from a satellite. The resolution won't be good enough to pick yourself out, but it can show for big groups.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck?
Science & Energy

By Jolene Creighton

New research suggests that a fiery layer of super-hot plasma marks the transition between our solar system and interstellar space.
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski