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Scientists Think Radiation from Micro-Black Holes May Have Shaped the Early Universe

The proof may be hiding in dark matter.

By Elizabeth Rayne

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Humanity May Find Clues of Alien Life in the Next 20 Years, Scientists Say

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Intelligent Aliens Could Be All Around Us

By Manasee Wagh

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Is This the Warp Drive We’ve Been Waiting For?

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Scars in Our Universe Could Unlock Time Travel

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Could We Eavesdrop on Alien Messages?

By Elizabeth Rayne

Deep Space

two ‘fans’ corresponding to the two main areas desi has observed, above and below the plane of our milky way (see this map). desi is mounted on the u.s. national science foundation nicholas u. mayall 4 meter telescope at kitt peak national observatory (kpno), a program of nsf noirlab. desi has made the largest 3d map of our universe to date and uses it to study dark energy. earth is at the center of the two fans, where bluer points indicate more distant objects. this is a still from an animated rotation of the desi year 3 data map.

Everything We Knew About the Cosmos Might Be Wrong

By Jackie Appel

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Singularities Could Be Doorways to New Realities

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Our Universe Formed Water Earlier Than We Thought

By Elizabeth Rayne

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Scientists Think Light Holds Gravitational Memory

By Elizabeth Rayne

Moon and Mars

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NASA Detected GPS Signals From the Moon

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Scientists Found 'Killer Electrons' Far From Home

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Frosty Sand Dunes Could Prove Mars Supported Life

By Elizabeth Rayne

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NASA Might Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars

Rockets

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A Fusion Rocket Could Cut Space Travel in Half

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Scientists Can Reach Alpha Centauri...in 40 Years

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Snorkeler Finds Huge Rocket Panel on Remote Island

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Starship Explosion Blew Open the Ionosphere

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All About UFOs

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Navy UFO Witnesses Reveal Nimitz Encounter Details

By Tim McMillan

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Aliens From a Parallel Universe May Be Around Us

By Elana Spivack

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Scientists Say They Know How to Find Dyson Rings

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Could Fusion Energy Also Help Us Find Alien Life?

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Every Glorious Image From the James Webb Space Telescope (So Far)

Take a peek at all of the stars, galaxies, and breathtaking nebulas from the groundbreaking telescope.

By Manasee Wagh

Satellites

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We‘re Getting Close to Chucking Objects Into Space

By Jackie Appel

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SpaceX Will Make the ISS's Deorbiting Vehicle

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This Is the World's First Wooden Satellite

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SpaceX Is Working on a Shadowy Government Project

Solar System

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This Meteorite’s Origins Don’t Exist Anymore

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Scientists Found a Distant Three-Body Problem

By Elizabeth Rayne

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Scientists Think They Saw Celestial Arms in Space

By Jackie Appel

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An Asteroid Contains Many Building Blocks of Life

Telescopes

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How NASA’s Next Super Telescope Could Find Aliens

By Paul M. Sutter

the horsehead nebula

Euclid Just Released Its First Pictures

By Jackie Appel

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The Best Telescopes

By M. Josh Roberts

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The ESA Wants to Build an Inflatable Telescope

By Jackie Appel

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More Space

an underwater cave leads to a sunlit canyon between coral reefs.

A Kilonova Left Plutonium in Our Ocean

By Elizabeth Rayne

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We Might Be Trapped in a Gigantic Black Hole

By Elizabeth Rayne

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An Asteroid Isn’t Hitting Earth Any Time Soon

By Jackie Appel

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A Supernova May Have Altered Evolution on Earth

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Scientists Found 300 Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

By Elizabeth Rayne

supernova

Scientists Now Know Why This Black Hole is Pulsing

By Caroline Delbert

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These Ancient Black Holes Shouldn’t Exist

By Elizabeth Rayne

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‘Quipu’: The New Largest Structure in the Universe

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Wait…What If Dark Energy Doesn’t Exist?

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Astronomers Spot Perplexing Sideways Black Hole

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Scientists Could Solve the Information Paradox

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There’s Still Unknown Physics in Our Universe

By Jackie Appel

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This Test Could Prove If Universe Is Made for Life

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34 Space Gifts That Are Out of This World

By Tom Price and Rachel Klein

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Alien Life Might Form in Unlikely Realities

By Jackie Appel

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Scientists Just Saw the Creation of All-New Atoms

By Jackie Appel

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Is Life Hiding Beneath Titan’s Thick Icy Crust?

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A Father-Daughter Duo Cracked an ‘Alien’ Code

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Chasing an Asteroid

By Robin George Andrews

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This Molecule May Be the Source of Life on Earth