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Weird Supermassive Forces Are Making Black Holes Collide

In the vastness of space, the gravitational pull of the cosmos orchestrates a stellar collision.

By Caroline Delbert

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The Universe Could Be Eternal, According to This Controversial Theory

By Stav Dimitropoulos

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How a Lunar Supercollider Could Upend Physics

By Caroline Delbert

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The History of Pi

By David Grossman

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The Strange Origin of the Hollow Moon Conspiracy

By Jessica Coulon

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What Do Alien Space Probes Look Like?

Deep Space

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Are We Living in a ‘Hall of Mirrors’ Universe?

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Have We Already Found Evidence of Dyson Spheres?

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A Glitch in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

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Why Life on Other Planets Might Be Purple

Moon and Mars

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Curiosity Finds Evidence of Mars’ Earth-Like Past

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An Unsettling New Image Shows ‘Spiders’ on Mars

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Human-Made Space Debris Could Crash on Mars

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How to View the Solar Eclipse

Rockets

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New Warp Drive Concept Is More Fact Than Fiction

a spaceship blazes its way through space with ion propulsion

NASA's Ion Thruster Could Spawn a Space Revolution

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An Engineer Says He’s Overcome Earth’s Gravity

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Scientists Get Serious in Search for Warp Drive

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All About UFOs

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Ufology: From Fringe Field to Serious Science

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Physics-Defying UFOs Could Just Be Bad Data

house committee holds first open hearing on ufo's in decades

New UFO Footage Revealed in Congressional Hearing

By Kyle Mizokami

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The U.S. Could Get Its Own UFO Investigators

By Kyle Mizokami

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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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SpaceX Is Working on a Shadowy Government Project

ngc 457, the owl cluster in cassiopeia, with accumulated satellite trails

Too Many ‘UFOs’ Are Actually Starlink Satellites

By Caroline Delbert

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China Claims It’s Testing 6G in Orbit Right Now.

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NASA’s Solar Sail Is Ready for Action

Solar System

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Scientists Find Even More Evidence for Planet Nine

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The Sun’s Expansion Will Devour Many of Its Childr

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We Thought We Knew What Uranus Was Made Of

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What It‘s Like To See A Total Solar Eclipse

By Jackie Appel

Telescopes

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How NASA’s Next Super Telescope Could Find Aliens

By Paul M. Sutter

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Euclid Just Released Its First Pictures

By Jackie Appel

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The Best Telescopes of 2023

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

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Wild Theory Offers Reason We Haven’t Found Aliens

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Astronomers Found a ‘Sleeping Giant’ Black Hole

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SETI CEO Says Alien Tech Doesn't Exist. Yet.

nasa

Piece from ISS Smashes Through Florida Home

alien planet, artwork

Similar Planets Could Point Toward Alien Worlds

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We May Be Living in a Variable Universe

nasa's two voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space

This Is the Best Way to Exit Our Solar System

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Stream the Great American Solar Eclipse

By Jackie Appel

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The Incredible Case of NASA’S Missing Moondust

By Eleanor Cummins

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Fugitive Stars Are Heading to Our Galaxy

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A Giant Star Looks Like It's Defying Astrophysics

meteor in night sky falling over ocean

Meteorite Strike Was Actually Just a Truck

during its routine yearly monitoring of the weather on our solar system's outer planets, nasa's hubble space telescope has uncovered a new mysterious dark storm on neptune right and provided a fresh look at a long lived storm circling around the north polar region on uranus left

3 Moons Emerged From Around Neptune and Uranus

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4 People Are Spending a Year In a Martian World.

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2 Dwarf Planets Are Hiding Something Incredible

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Theory Says Our Universe Is Eating Baby Universes

lunar lander

America Has Planted Its Feet on the Moon Once More

Stars Passed in the Night—and Changed Our Climate

moon surface

Are We Closer to Knowing the Moon's Origins?

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Astronomers Caught Dark Matter in the Cosmic Web

By Jackie Appel