For several decades now, the world’s largest freshwater lake held a mystery that left scientists scratching their heads. Lake Baikal, located in Russia’s frigid Siberia, …
The United States military carries out missile tests on a fairly regular basis, and they don’t normally get much attention. After all, they’re just tests, …
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Our Sun is vitally important to our continued existence, but it’s also a volatile object with a spicy personality. Coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are …
As the new strain of coronavirus continues to spread across huge chunks of China, the outbreak’s impact on the world at large is growing more …
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Being chosen to take part in a mission aboard the International Space Station is an incredible honor. Only an impossibly small fraction of humans have …
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Solar power technology shows promise in helping humanity wean itself off of power sources that are far more damaging to the planet. It’s already used …
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Earth is covered in water. It’s the big blue marble, and oceans dominate its surface… but what if they didn’t? What if Earth’s oceans were …
Construction workers in Buckingham, England got a disturbing surprise when they began clearing land for new residential development recently. The housing development includes 72 flats …
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All around the world, health officials are scrambling to come up with solutions to the coronavirus. The outbreak popped up in China weeks ago, and …
With so many pieces of high-tech hardware at its disposal, it’s easy to forget that some of NASA’s most impressive machines are rapidly aging. The …
If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the progress of the coronavirus outbreak over the past month or so, one thing that probably gave …
Coronavirus is spreading, and it’s spreading relatively fast. What started as a handful of confirmed infections in fish market in Wuhan, China, has exploded into …
The World Health Organization (WHO) met for a second time to discuss the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) since the outbreak started, and this time around, the WHO …
Evolution has given humans a number of cool bodily functions to deal with certain circumstances. Sweating, for example, is a way for our bodies to …
The saga of the James Webb Space Telescope is a long and sad one. The high-powered space-gazing tool has been in development for decades and …
With confirmed cases of the Chinese coronavirus already popping up in the United States, it was really only a matter of time before one of …
Skywatchers spent much of Wednesday watching the progress of two satellites which were rapidly approaching each other. A collision seemed unlikely earlier in the day, …
For several years in a row now, life expectancy in the United States has seen a small but steady decline. This unfortunate trend has been …
The Sun rises and falls every day, giving us plenty of opportunities to see it. From Earth, we can’t really make out what it is …
It’s easy to imagine the area around Earth being so incredibly large that there’s no way we could ever clog it with manmade debris. Unfortunately, …
It’s not often that a NASA mission is still up and running over four decades after launch, but the space agency’s Voyager twins are anything …
With all the news about the scary new coronavirus coming out of China, you’d have to be completely cut off from the daily news cycle …
As the deadly coronavirus continues to spread across parts of China, foreigners traveling through the area are doing their best to get out. As was …
Over the course of human history, astronomers have spent a lot of time studying our nearest star. Telescopes on the ground can only see so …
