Since the 1970s, when the Voyager probes captured images of Europa’s icy surface, scientists have suspected that life could exist
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Since the 1970s, when the Voyager probes captured images of Europa’s icy surface, scientists have suspected that life could exist
Continue readingThe improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments. MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot
Continue readingA single, high-energy neutrino struck Earth on Sept. 22, 2017. It came from a distant galaxy, wrapped around a supermassive
Continue readingData recorded during Cassini’s final months is still giving us gold. New research from the probe’s Grand Finale mission has
Continue readingNew findings suggest that some exoplanets will have stable axial tilts and climates, much as Earth does. This knowledge will
Continue readingAs the Milky Way was growing, taking shape, and minding its own business around 10 billion years ago, it suffered
Continue readingA cloud of gas and dust was the matter from which all planets and the world originates…but what is exactly
Continue readingThe disk of our home galaxy – the Milky Way – is bigger than we previously thought. A new study
Continue readingForget mere chemical reactions; in space, matter-energy conversion creates unprecedentedly powerful explosive events. Here are the 7 most powerful natural
Continue readingAround sunrise on Feb. 15, 2013, an extremely bright and otherworldly object was seen streaking through the skies over Russia
Continue readingIf we’re going to head out into interstellar space one day, we might want to go equipped with some heavy-duty
Continue readingIt’s beginning to look like life here began out there. The number of potentially habitable worlds has exploded. Organic molecules
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