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Dec 21, 2020
Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have detected an "intriguing signal" from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star system to the...
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Nov 27, 2020
The universe might be full of tiny, ancient black holes. And researchers might be able to prove it.
These mini black holes from the beginning of time, or primordial black holes...
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Oct 21, 2020
Scientists may have observed the Higgs boson doing a new trick: creating pairs of muons.When the Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, it was the...
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Oct 7, 2020
If life does exist on Venus, NASA may have first detected it back in 1978. But the finding went unnoticed for 42 years.Life on Venus is still a long shot. But there's reason to take...
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Aug 25, 2020
A small, soft space rock smacked into Costa Rica on April 23, 2019. And it may have carried building blocks for life.The washing machine-sized clay fireball broke up before landing,...
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Aug 23, 2020
Next week for the first time on record, two hurricanes could hit the Gulf of Mexico at the same time.Twice before, in 1959 and 1933, two tropical storms have entered the Gulf...
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Aug 17, 2020
Mars is pockmarked with absolutely massive lava tubes, with ceilings as high as the Empire State Building, new research shows. And the moon hosts even more gargantuan tubes, with...
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Jul 15, 2020
About 10 million light-years from Earth, a blurry galaxy named Mirach's Ghost may help unravel a dark mystery: where the largest black holes in the universe came from. But this...
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Jun 24, 2020
A series of viral articles claimed that NASA had discovered particles from another parallel universe in which time runs backward. These claims were incorrect. The true story is far...
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Apr 15, 2020
The Milky Way may be missing a strange X-ray glow long associated with dark matter in other galaxies, a new study has found. If this glowing halo is really missing — and...
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Mar 13, 2020
Something's up with the North Star.
People have watched the North Star for centuries. The bright star, also known as Polaris, is almost directly above Earth's North...
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Mar 13, 2020
Something's up with the North Star.People have watched the North Star for centuries. The bright star, also known as Polaris, is almost directly above Earth's North Pole and serves as...
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Feb 5, 2020
Gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, slip through Earth all the time, carrying secrets about the universe. But until a few years ago, we couldn't detect...
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Jan 27, 2020
Our best model of particle physics is bursting at the seams as it struggles to contain all the weirdness in the universe. Now, it seems more likely than ever that it might pop,...
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Jan 3, 2020
No one really knows what happens inside an atom. But two competing groups of scientists think they've figured it out. And both are racing to prove that their own...
Dec 21, 2020Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have detected an "intriguing signal" from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star system to the...
Nov 27, 2020The universe might be full of tiny, ancient black holes. And researchers might be able to prove it. These mini black holes from the beginning of time, or primordial black holes...
Oct 21, 2020Scientists may have observed the Higgs boson doing a new trick: creating pairs of muons.When the Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, it was the...
Oct 7, 2020If life does exist on Venus, NASA may have first detected it back in 1978. But the finding went unnoticed for 42 years.Life on Venus is still a long shot. But there's reason to take...
Aug 25, 2020A small, soft space rock smacked into Costa Rica on April 23, 2019. And it may have carried building blocks for life.The washing machine-sized clay fireball broke up before landing,...
Aug 23, 2020Next week for the first time on record, two hurricanes could hit the Gulf of Mexico at the same time.Twice before, in 1959 and 1933, two tropical storms have entered the Gulf...
Aug 17, 2020Mars is pockmarked with absolutely massive lava tubes, with ceilings as high as the Empire State Building, new research shows. And the moon hosts even more gargantuan tubes, with...
Jul 15, 2020About 10 million light-years from Earth, a blurry galaxy named Mirach's Ghost may help unravel a dark mystery: where the largest black holes in the universe came from. But this...
Jun 24, 2020A series of viral articles claimed that NASA had discovered particles from another parallel universe in which time runs backward. These claims were incorrect. The true story is far...
Apr 15, 2020The Milky Way may be missing a strange X-ray glow long associated with dark matter in other galaxies, a new study has found. If this glowing halo is really missing — and...
Mar 13, 2020 Something's up with the North Star. People have watched the North Star for centuries. The bright star, also known as Polaris, is almost directly above Earth's North...
Feb 5, 2020 Gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, slip through Earth all the time, carrying secrets about the universe. But until a few years ago, we couldn't detect...
Jan 27, 2020Our best model of particle physics is bursting at the seams as it struggles to contain all the weirdness in the universe. Now, it seems more likely than ever that it might pop,...
Jan 3, 2020 No one really knows what happens inside an atom. But two competing groups of scientists think they've figured it out. And both are racing to prove that their own...
