This mysterious space signal is (probably) not from aliens
The signal was like nothing Abel M茅ndez had ever seen. It had the same frequency as radio emissions from satellites, but it pulsed like it came from something much more...
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A mysterious Mars-sized planet may be hiding at the edge of our solar system
A mysterious celestial body may be lurking in the frozen, far-flung reaches of the solar system, scientists say.
NASA finds 10 new potentially habitable ‘Earth-like’ worlds
Astronomers using the Kepler space telescope have detected 219 possible new exoplanets in our galaxy, including 10 relatively small, rocky and possibly habitable planets similar to our own, NASA announced...
How to teach kids about climate change where most parents are skeptics
The phrase "climate change" evokes deep skepticism in northern Idaho. Fewer than half of adults in Kootenai County think that human activities contribute to global warming, surveys show.
A scientist who studies protest says “the resistance” isn’t slowing down since President Trump’s inauguration
Sociologist Dana Fisher moved to Washington for the protests. She'd been studying environmental activism for more than a decade at Columbia University, and when she was offered a job as...
Are the world’s most stunning shells too beautiful for their own good?
"Before you do anything else," curator Chris Meyer said the minute I arrived at the National Museum of Natural History's Invertebrate Zoology collection, "you have to vote for beauty."
This black hole is being pushed around its galaxy by gravitational waves
Black holes are the big bullies of space. They're so massive that their gravity doesn't let any light escape. The biggest black holes - called "supermassive" - weigh as much...