Link Between Oumuamua and UFOs? A Harvard Professor Explains Why It’s Not Far Fetched
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Once again, Professor Avi Loeb came up with a new hypothesis about the artificial nature of the interstellar object known…
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A Laser-Powered Spacecraft is Heading to Alpha Centauri—10 Things To Keep In Mind
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A group of scientists from the Breakthrough Starshot program announced an ambitious project to explore interstellar space using a compact…
Mystery Red Spots on Pluto’s Surface Baffle Scientists—10 Things You Should Know
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The fascinating icy surface of Pluto is covered in red spots of tholins, but new experiments have shown that the…
Unexpected Feature on Venus Reveals Hellish Planet and Earth Have a Lot in Common
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Studying old radar data collected back in the early 1990s by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, scientists have found that Venus today…
Cosmic 3D Map Reveals Weird Feature of Our Solar System
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Based on data from the IBEX spacecraft, astrophysicists were able to create a three-dimensional map of the outer boundary of…
Massive Object From “Outside” Our Solar System Heading Our Way—10 Things You Should Know
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Astronomers have discovered a new trans-Neptunian object that may be the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered. The diameter of…
Rocket Mining System Developed to Exploit the Moon’s Resources—10 Things You Should Know
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The American company Masten Space Systems has presented a plan for the extraction of ice on the Moon in the…
Hubble in Trouble—Space Telescope’s Future Uncertain After Main Computer Glitch
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NASA specialists were unable to connect the backup memory module of the Hubble space telescope, which is why the observatory…
3,200-Year-Old Monument in Turkey is Likely an Ancient Cosmic Chart —10 Things You Need to Know
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Archaeologists have presented a study that re-interprets the purpose of an ancient Hittite sanctuary – the Yazilikaya temple. According to…
Mystery Dimming of Star in Orion’s Constellation Solved—Here’s What You Need to Know
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Astronomers using ground-based telescopes have confirmed that the Great Dimming of Betelgeuse, which occurred a couple of years ago, was…
Two Mystery Human Species Lived Together 50,000-Years Ago in Israel–10 Reasons Why This is Important
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Archaeologists obtained new dates for the Boker-Takhtit Paleolithic site in the Negev desert in Israel and compared them with the…
A Weird Animal Mistaken as a Bid Turns Out to Be Entirely New Species of Lizard
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Paleontologists have conclusively established that Oculudentavis khaungraae, a tiny “dinosaur” found in Burmese amber, was in fact a new unusual…
10 Reasons Why Moons of Rogue Exoplanets are a Good Place for Alien Life
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Scientists modeled the conditions on the surface of a satellite of a massive rogue exoplanet that left its home star…
Scientists Confirm Earth’s Fifth Ocean–10 Things You Should Know About it
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The National Geographic Society has recognized that there is a fifth ocean on Earth. As the magazine clarifies, we are…
Massive Structures That Link Galaxies Together Have Started Spinning Leaving Experts Baffled
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Nothing in space is at rest. Everything moves and revolves – the Earth, the Sun, the Milky Way – and…
NASA to Land on the Moon’s Far Side—10 Things Why This Matters
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NASA has announced the selection of three new scientific payloads at once, which will be part of its own initiative…
We May Just Have Discovered a New Type of Star—10 Things You Should Know
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An unusual star has been discovered in the central part of the Milky Way, the brightness of which either decreases…
China’s Lander and Rover Make History on Mars
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The China National Space Administration has released new images of Mars taken by China’s first rover, Zhurong. Among them is…
CHIME Telescope Spots Hundreds of Mysterious Alien Signals—10 Things You Should Know
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Scientists from Canada and the United States reported that in the first year of operation of the CHIME radio telescope,…
We’ve Finally Mapped The Entire Human Genome—10 Reasons Why This is Huge
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In June 2000, the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corporation announced the completion of work on the sequencing of…
Ancient Necropolis Unearthed In Croatia
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Croatian archaeologists have discovered a new late antique necropolis during excavations on the island of Hvar in Croatia. The remains…
10 Things You Need to Know About Australia’s Biggest Dinosaur
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Australian paleontologists have described a new species of sauropod – giant long-necked dinosaurs. Scientists named it Australotitan cooperensis. It is…