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The ESA confirmed that asteroid 2006 QV89 will not collide with Earth later this year. Scientists don't know where it is, but it isn't on its way here.

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Good News: That Nearby Asteroid Won’t Obliterate Us This Year

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's TESS satellite analyzed its first supernova, inadvertently revealing that astronomers made some wrong assumptions about the explosions.

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NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite Discovers Mysterious Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers just saw for the first time a gas giant planet actively forming new moons out of a cloud of gas and dust.

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Scientists Spot Distant Gas Giant Still Forming New Moons

By Dan Robitzski

Last week, a Russian nuclear sub caught fire, killing 14. Now, a Russian Navy official says that the deceased crew averted a "planetary catastrophe."

Russia: Dead Nuclear Sub Somehow Avoided “Planetary Catastrophe”

By Dan Robitzski

An attempt to reconcile the discrepancy among Hubble Constant calculations only complicated the matter, raising questions about our models of the universe.

New Hubble Data Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of the Universe

By Dan Robitzski

It may be possible to terraform Mars by blanketing future space farms with a thin layer of aerogel that blocks radiation and heats the ground.

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A Thin Layer of Aerogel Could Make Martian Farming Possible

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists managed to capture photographic evidence that two photons were linked by quantum entanglement.

Scientists Capture First-Ever Image of Quantum Entanglement

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who work on extraterrestrial-seeking projects like SETI report a stigma within science that gets their work dismissed and funding killed.

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Scientists Are Terrified of SETI Research

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA Astrobiology Institute-funded project will be trying to find out if life could ever exist in Titan's ocean — and if it does, how to look for it.

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NASA Organizes Huge Effort to Study Alien Life in Titan’s Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

Carbon capture will be key to addressing climate change, and now, scientists have found a gene that could make plants better at capturing and storing CO2.

Renewable Energy

Scientists Gene Edit Plants to be Better at Carbon Capture

By Kristin Houser

A distant black hole is surrounded by a much larger disk of spacestuff than scientists expected, giving them a rare glimpse of special relativity in action.

This Might Be the Strangest Black Hole Yet

By Dan Robitzski

News recently broke about worms that had allegedly been frozen in Arctic permafrost for 40,000 years. It turns out they're probably a lot younger.

That Story About the Ancient Frozen Worms Might Be Bologna

By Dan Robitzski

As the world continues to heat up from climate change, tens of thousands of important archaeological sites throughout the Arctic will be destroyed.

Climate Change Is Destroying Greenland’s Historic Viking Towns

By Dan Robitzski

The diagnostic tools on experimental fusion reactors are too fragile for industrial-scale facilities. A new technique may be able to replace them.

New Tool Helps Contain Molten Plasma in Fusion Reactors

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered two distant supermassive black holes on a crash course with each other. They hope to learn whether such mergers are possible.

Two Supermassive Black Holes Are on a Devastating Crash Course

By Dan Robitzski

Physicist Sterling Backus is 3D printing a full-scale Lamborghini Aventador-inspired supercar in his own backyard with the help of his son.

A Physicist and His Son Are 3D-Printing a Full-Scale Lamborghini

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that some moons may escape their host planets' orbits to become "ploonets" — and Earth's own Moon could eventually join their ranks.

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Our Moon Could Escape Earth’s Orbit and Become a “Ploonet”

By Kristin Houser

Impossible Foods, the fake meat company behind the plant-based Impossible Burger, is now working on a recipe for plant-based fish meat.

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Impossible Foods Is Trying to Make Fake Fish Now

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have found radiation levels up to 800,000 times higher than expected in the sea water around a sunken nuclear sub.

This Sunken Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a two-in-one device that purifies salty or contaminated water while simultaneously producing solar power.

New Device Purifies Water While Generating Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Amazon and Microsoft are bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract for a wartime cloud computing system, but lawsuits over favoritism slowed the process.

Amazon and Microsoft Want to Build A “War Cloud” for the Military

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists who were melting permafrost ice to look for ancient microbes were surprised to see a pile of 41,000 year-old worms wake up and wiggle around.

Scientists Melted Ancient Ice and a Long-Dead Worm Wriggled Out

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just awarded SpaceX with a launch services contract to launch NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission in 2021.

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SpaceX Scores NASA Contract to Launch Black Hole Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

When the ESA launches LISA, a constellation of gravitational wave-detecting satellites, it will likely be able to spot new exoplanets across the galaxy.

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Gravitational Wave Detector May Find Exoplanets in Nearby Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

We need to create a World Carbon Bank to incentivize developing nations to go green, according to Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff.

Economist Calls for World Carbon Bank to Fight Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Next year, astronauts on the International Space Station will attempt to bake cookies in space. It's part PR stunt, part lesson in zero-g manufacturing.

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Astronauts Are Planning to Bake Cookies on the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Chameleon Theory provides an alternative explanation for galaxy formation and the universe's expansion from Einstein's General Relativity.

New “Chameleon Theory” Could Explain Dark Energy, How Galaxies Formed

By Dan Robitzski

As LightSail 2 orbits Earth and explores the cosmos, people back home can track the progress of the solar sail and monitor its status through a new website.

A New Website Tracks the Just-Launched Solar Sail Spaceship

By Dan Robitzski

A giant asteroid the size of a car just showed up on the University of Hawaii's survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

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Massive Asteroid Explodes Above Puerto Rico Mere Hours After Detection

By Victor Tangermann

New computer simulations upend our understanding of how distant space rocks called trans-Neptunian objects formed during the solar system's earliest days.

Space Rocks Near Neptune Could Reveal the Solar System’s Origins

By Dan Robitzski

A third CRISPR baby was expected to be due in late June or early July, but the Chinese government is keeping quiet about the gene-hacking controversy.

We May Never Know When That Third CRISPR Baby Is Born

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers have detected over ten radio bursts from distant galaxies in the last week. The sudden frequency could help us figure out what's causing them.

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Possible Alien Radio Signals Way More Common Than Believed

By Dan Robitzski

California's Exploratorium has teamed up with NASA to broadcast a livestream of the total solar eclipse over parts of South America.

Here’s How You Can Watch Today’s Total Solar Eclipse

By Kristin Houser

If our climate crisis continues unchecked, the global poor will face the greatest burden while the rich pay to escape the problem altogether.

“Climate Apartheid” Is Imminent. Only the Rich Will Survive.

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers traced a mysterious, fleeting radio burst from space back to the galaxy from which it originated for the first time.

Astronomers Traced a Mysterious Radio Burst to a Distant Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers used AI to create a universe simulator that's incredibly fast and accurate, even when they tweak parameters not included in its training data.

World’s First AI Universe Simulator Knows Things It Shouldn’t

By Kristin Houser

A town in southern France called Villevieille just hit the country's hottest ever recorded temperature of 45.1 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).

Climate Change Update: France Just Hit Highest Recorded Temp

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created a version of an MRI machine that's so scaled down, it can capture detailed images of individual atoms.

Quantum Physics

World’s Smallest MRI Machine Means We Can Now Scan Individual Atoms

By Kristin Houser

An in-depth study of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor to our solar system, seems to finally put to bed the theory that it's an alien spacecraft.

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Sorry, but ’Oumuamua the Asteroid Wasn’t Sent by Aliens, Say Scientists, For Some Reason Dignifying This Yet Again

By Kristin Houser

Astrobiologists believe that the answer to what alien life could look like on icy moons like Saturn's moon Enceladus could lie deep on the ocean floor.

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Aliens on Icy Moons Could Look Like Organisms Near Seafloor Volcanoes

By Victor Tangermann

To prevent farm animals from contribute to methane emissions, scientists suggest feeding them foods less likely to produce the greenhouse gas.

Gut Microbe Manipulation Could End Climate-Destroying Sheep Farts

By Kristin Houser

Researchers achieved quantum teleportation within a diamond, an achievement that could shape how we share and store sensitive information in the future.

Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Teleported Quantum Information Inside a Diamond

By Kristin Houser

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.

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Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe

By Dan Robitzski

SpinLaunch, a company that specializes in a space katapult launch system, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense's Innovation Unit (DIU).

Hypersonic Space Catapult Startup Signs Military Contract

By Victor Tangermann

Contrails given off by airplanes contribute more to global warming than we thought. By 2050, they'll warm the planet twice as much as the plane's emissions.

Airplane Contrails Might Actually be a Problem for the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.

Stacking Graphene Creates Entirely New Quantum States

By Kristin Houser

A new set of equations can make sense of the physics behind turbulence, letting scientists better understand weather and the ways galaxies form.

New Turbulence Models Could Predict Galaxy Formation

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Special Forces are developing a device that can detect a person's unique cardiac signature using an IR laser from a distance.

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New Laser Can Identify People From a Distance By Their Heartbeat

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time, scientists generated entangled radiation using a mechanical object. They're describing it as the first step toward a quantum internet.

Scientists: Entangled Radiation May Help Build “Quantum Internet”

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard's RoboBee X-Wing takes the RoboBee to the next level by sporting solar cells and an extra pair of wings for more stable flight.

This Minuscule Robotic Bee Only Uses Solar Energy to Fly

By Victor Tangermann

The lyrics database Genius embedded a hidden typography code into its lyrics to prove that Google was copying content directly from its site.

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Genius Used a Typography Trick to Bust Google For Stealing Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

A team of French physicists claim to have created metallic hydrogen. Scientists say this experiment is more credible than past, overhyped attempts.

Scientists May Have Created Metallic Hydrogen—For Real this Time

By Dan Robitzski

Michael Manga, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new theory as to what may be causing marsquakes.

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New Theory: Marsquakes Could be Caused by Frozen Groundwater

By Victor Tangermann

Sydney became the first major Australian city to declare a state of emergency to prevent the worst effects of climate change on Monday.

Sydney Is in a State of Emergency to Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Someone — likely Chinese state actors — hacked over ten cell service companies around the world and monitored people's activity for seven years.

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Someone Hacked Global Telecom Companies. Experts Blame China.

By Dan Robitzski

By analyzing the oldest known minerals from Mars, researchers think they've discovered a 700 million year period during which Martian life could've thrived.

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Mars Had a Chance to Grow Life 4.4 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows

By Kristin Houser

Dutch startup Lightyear has unveiled the Lightyear One prototype, a solar car it claims has a longer single-charge range than any other car on the market.

Startup Unveils World’s First Long-Range “Solar Car”

By Kristin Houser

A physicist came up with models that support the idea that a 2D universe could still feasibly support life, poking holes in the anthropic argument.

New Theory: A 2D Universe Could Host Living Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

The Tibet Air Shower Array has detected extremely high-energy photons from the Crab Nebula, which is some 6,500 light-years away from Earth.

Crab Nebula Has Hit Earth with Highest-Energy Light Ever Recorded

By Kristin Houser

Ocean waves are slamming plastic pollution against an island's coastline, causing a potentially dangerous plastic crust to form on the rocks.

Why Is a Strange Plastic Crust Spreading on This Island’s Coast?

By Kristin Houser

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

US Presidential Candidate Plans to End Fossil Fuel Industry

By Dan Robitzski

Dozens of newly-uncovered climate studies that were buried by Trump's USDA reveal how major foods like rice are becoming less nutritious.

Trump Admin. Hid Climate Reports Warning of New Dangers

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity Rover just found methane readings at a Martian site to be three times as high as the previously record level — posssibly a sign of life.

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New NASA Rover Discovery Hints at Signs of Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Russia's defense minister recently announced that the country has begun combat tests for both lasers and hypersonic weaponry.

Russian Military Actively Testing Lasers, Hypersonic Weapons

By Dan Robitzski