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A planet made of melted metal could be the key for finding the next Earth
A planet that’s gassy like Jupiter with melted metals in its atmosphere, and placed right next to t…
This giant telescope may taint sacred land. Here's why we should build it anyway.
Foreign meddling and exploitation in Hawaii started when European explorer Captain Cook landed at t…
Kelly Dickerson
Hawaiian astronomer reveals why he supports the telescope that's tearing his community apart
Hawaiian Governor David Ige sought to reach a compromise in the upheaval by calling for a few of th…
Kelly Dickerson
Bird poop worth $470 million is at risk — could hold the key to saving seabirds across the world
You could classify bird poop as one of the unfortunate incidents that drops on your head at the mos…
No, NASA's $8.7 billion golden telescope is not complete - its torturous 2-year journey to space has only just begun
If the mirror passes those punishing tests, it will fly aboard a giant jet and to Johnson Space Cen…
Dave Mosher
Billionaire investor Yuri Milner says he is going to spend $100 million renting massive telescopes to search for life on other planets
These tools are now reaping a harvest of discoveries. In the last few years, astronomers and the Ke…
16 recently discovered exoplanets could offer our best chance of finding alien life outside the solar system
The telescope used what's known as the transit method to look for exoplanets (worlds outside our so…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
These are the best science images of the week
Scientists also discovered the closest rocky Earth-sized exoplanet ever, and the smog in China reac…
Rebecca Harrington
The best live video feeds streaming the 2017 total solar eclipse
NASA is pulling out all of the stops with two live feeds of the solar eclipse, via NASA TV and NASA…
Dave Mosher
How to take the best possible photo of the 'super blue blood moon' with your phone
Fnd a dark spot with as little light pollution as you can, according to Bryan O'Neil Hughes, the di…
Kevin Loria
NASA's biggest-ever hunt for alien planets is finally underway - and the agency expects to discover 'strange, fantastic worlds'
The next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be …
Dave Mosher
Scientists have discovered water vapor on a potentially habitable super-Earth for the first time. That planet is now our best bet for finding alien life.
"Habitability as we understand it is a very Earth-centric concept. So we know one world that is hab…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Is it Planet 9 or Planet X? Scientists spar over what to call the solar system's hypothetical missing world
Stern is an ardent defender of Pluto's planethood. In 2015, shortly after New Horizons flew past Pl…
Dave Mosher
7 awesome ways quantum computers will change the world
This ultra-secure communication is called quantum key distribution and it allows someone to send a …
Kelly Dickerson
The 11 best photos ever taken with a selfie stick
They gained popularity (and notoriety) last year when TIME Magazine named the selfie stick one of t…
Maya Kosoff
Thousands of worlds may lurk beyond Pluto - and a stunning new animation shows them all
Pluto, Eris, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and five others meet Brown's "near certainty" criteria - in o…
Dave Mosher
2 of the best places to hunt for alien life just became even more promising
"We thought, maybe we could see if people at Hubble would give us time to do this observation, so w…
Ali Sundermier
The best 2016 supermoon photo we've seen yet took several years of planning
Supermoons happen when the moon's wonky elliptical orbit lines up perfectly with those of the Earth…
Dave Mosher
The 10 Most Important Things In The World Right Now
2. Some of the world's top aid experts, headed for an international conference in Melbourne, Austra…
Dina Spector
The physics of Mario World shows the game has a fundamental flaw
Now, Mario's jumping ability slightly varies between different games, so the g-value will also vary…