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Was it a real thing? And the Wise Men? Or are they just myths?
Two new papers say everything we knew about black holes was wrong.
The discovery could potentially bush pack the evolution of feathers on vertebrates by 70 million years.
A theory from cosmology claims the Universe could rip apart to shreds.
Star production peaked three billion years after the Big Bang.
It was captured by the Parker Solar Probe, which is currently studying the star.
The Geminid meteor shower grows more intense with every year, and it’s expected to be particularly bright in 2018.
The NASA probe has ventured beyond our solar system.
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The photos were taken the same day as Russian cosmonauts investigated a mysterious hole discovered in one of the craft.
Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
Technology’s rapid advances may slow down, limiting our possibilities.
Breakthrough Starshot is moving ahead with an audacious vision for space exploration.
Astronauts will be able to harvest the Moon’s natural resources to sustain human life.
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On Friday, NASA’s InSight Mars lander captured and transmitted historic audio from the red planet.
The project involves a high-altitude balloon, tons of tiny particles and knowledge gained from a violent volcano eruption in 1991.
There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank.
NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains why the term ‘Big Bang’ is misleading, and how to best imagine the shape of the universe.
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A trio of scientists from Harvard hopes to do this in 2019.
In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.
It has experts baffled.
The particles are able to travel deep into tissue in ways that other treatments simply can’t.
The Mars landing is a reminder that we never know what—or whom—we might discover out there.
Venus: Hot, toxic, hellish… home?
Time to build a Corellian shipyard?
The unmanned lander will help scientists learn more about the interior of Mars and the development of rocky planets.
The CEO once said a self-sustaining Mars colony won’t work if it’s wildly expensive for each person to make the voyage.
The famous astrophysicist argues why Elon Musk is more important than Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.
A new book tells the very old story in a fun way for a younger generation.
Thanks to museum curators, there’s no shortage of the stuff.
As the world gets hotter, men may have fewer and fewer viable sperm