With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and providing us...
That shouldn't be happening.
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We have lots of recent evidence to suggest Earth is weird—really weird. Our planet, for example, mysteriously pulsates every 26 seconds, has a secret hidden layer, is rapidly getting colder (but only on one side), and just might...
Could a curious geological formation in the Mauritanian part of the Sahara desert anything to do with the lost city of Atlantis?
If you type the word “Atlantis” into Google, around 120 million results will pop up. Obviously, Plato’s legend...
It happened back in 1986—but it could happen again.
Voyager 2’s iconic portrait of Uranus hides many details of a complex world, some of which are starting to come to light. NASA/JPL
There’s a giant blank spot in researchers’ ever-growing map of...
Astronomers have discovered several planets orbiting two stars at once, called circumbinary planets. Now, they might have found the first planet orbiting three.
“Circumtriple” planet would show planets can form in unusual places.
ESO; L. CALÇADA/EXETER; KRAUS ET AL.
Astronomers have discovered several...
The deepest infrared view of the Universe ever was just unveiled, and it’s even better than we could have imagined.
In a NASA livestream, US President Joe Biden released the first official image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST),...
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. The habitable zone, also identified as the Goldilocks zone,...
It's a strange tale of two hemispheres.
New research shows the Pacific hemisphere is losing heat faster than the African hemisphere.
The heat is from Earth’s molten interior, which causes continental drift.
Landmass traps more heat than seafloor surface, indicating a...
What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along? According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to...
A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence.
Cuttlefish have been put to a new version of the marshmallow test, and the results appear to demonstrate that there's...
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