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The Debris From An Ancient Space Catastrophe Will Pelt Earth This Entire Week

By Kiona Smith

Its Taurid Season!

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Space

Voyager 1 Spacecraft Just Shut Off Its Main Transmitter And Switched To A Long-Abandoned Signal

By Kiona Smith

The old transmitter sends home a faint, almost ghostly signal from 15 billion miles away in the dark.

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This is What Game Theory Tells Us About Messaging Aliens

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This Potentially Rogue Planet Might Have Rings That Rotate Backwards — And That’s Not the Weird Part

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How Pseudoscience Obscures The Real Dangers Found In Meteor Showers

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The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd

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Bong Joon-ho’s Next Sci-Fi Movie Just Got Delayed... Again

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A NASA Psychologist Reveals 3 Mental Health Hacks Astronauts Use In Space

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The International Space Station Has A Pesky Leak — Not Even NASA Has A Solid Plan For It

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Aurora Alert! These 9 Northern States Could See the Aurora Borealis Tonight

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The World’s First Wooden Satellite Could Be the Key To Solving the Space Debris Problem

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Webb Telescope Discovered An Ancient Black Hole With A Voracious Appetite

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The Debris From An Ancient Space Catastrophe Will Pelt Earth This Entire Week

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19 Years Later, Xbox's Gory Sci-Fi Shooter Could Have Gone To Space

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Cooling The Earth By Blocking Sunlight Is Relatively Simple — But Should We?

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The Most Powerful Telescopes Suggest the Cosmos Is Surprisingly Simple

Space

Voyager 1 Spacecraft Just Shut Off Its Main Transmitter And Switched To A Long-Abandoned Signal

Space

This is What Game Theory Tells Us About Messaging Aliens

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This Potentially Rogue Planet Might Have Rings That Rotate Backwards — And That’s Not the Weird Part

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The Weird Look Of Modern Bike Helmets Are Nothing Compared To Their Pith And Leather Forebears

By Jud Ready and The Conversation

Trust us, you wouldn’t want to crash with an early 20th century helmet.

Science

How Pseudoscience Obscures The Real Dangers Found In Meteor Showers

By Mark Boslough and The Conversation

How a meteor shower could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.

Health

Do Brain-Training Games Actually Work? It’s Complicated

By Ian McDonough, Michael Dulas and The Conversation

Brain-training games may have cognitive benefits — but exactly what they are is a matter of debate.

Health

Why Can’t We Quit Diet Coke? The Drink Hacks Our Brains In More Ways Than One

By Elana Spivack

The formulation hacks our brain in ways that we don’t really have as much control over.

Health

Researchers Found Bird Flu In Pigs — Here’s Why That’s So Worrisome

By Ed Hutchinson and The Conversation

The latest move for H5N1 influenza has researchers more concerned than ever.

Space

The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd

By Kiona Smith

A recent study suggests an exoplanet orbiting daringly close to its small star may have a thick atmosphere, but there's reason to be skeptical.

Science

We’ve Been Wrong About the Pompeii Victims All Along

By Elana Spivack

DNA shows that the victims of Pompeii aren’t who we thought they were.

Science

A NASA Psychologist Reveals 3 Mental Health Hacks Astronauts Use In Space

By Doris Elín Urrutia

Here’s how astronauts maintain their mental mettle.

Space

The International Space Station Has A Pesky Leak — Not Even NASA Has A Solid Plan For It

By Kiona Smith

NASA can keep the station in orbit until 2030, but it's not going to be easy.

Space

Aurora Alert! These 9 Northern States Could See the Aurora Borealis Tonight

By Kiona Smith

The Solar Maximum is really lighting up the skies.