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This is Actual Science. Crystals at the Earth’s Core Power its Magnetic Field
A new study from the Tokyo Institute of Technology has shown how crystallization in the Earth's core may be what…
SETI Has Already Tried Listening to TRAPPIST-1 for Aliens
Ever since the presence of exoplanets was announced in the TRAPPIST-1 system, SETI has been monitoring the system for signs…
Wow, Mars Sure Can Be Pretty
The HiRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter continues to supply stunning images of the Martian surface.
It Might Be Possible to Refreeze the Icecaps to Slow Global Warming
According to a new study from the School of Earth and Space Exploration, it may be possible to refreeze the…
NASA Fires a Rocket into the Northern Lights, for Science!
Not only is it aurora season in Alaska, its sounding rocket season! NASA started launching a series of five sounding…
Planet 9 Can’t Run Forever. Two Asteroids Give Up Some Clues
Last year, Caltech astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin found indirect evidence for the existence of a large planet in…
Here’s an Aerial View of a Massive Iceberg Shearing away from Antarctica
Members of the British Antarctic Survey shot a video of the wide crack in the Antarctic Larsen Ice Sheet, which…
Get Ready for the First Pictures of a Black Hole’s Event Horizon
The Event Horizon Telescope should give us our first picture of a Black Hole in the beginning of 2018.
Huge News, Seven Earth-Sized Worlds Orbiting a Red Dwarf, Three in the Habitable Zone
In what is the biggest announcement in exoplanet-hunting history, NASA has announced the discovery of seven rocky exoplanets around a…
Here’s Something We Never Thought We’d See on a Comet: Shifting Dunes
The Rosetta mission’s close-up views of the curiously-shaped Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko have already changed some long-held ideas about comets. But here’s…