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Photo: alex-mit / Getty Images Astronomers Say Something Massive Is Lurking Inside the Milky Way
The trickster galaxy has been hiding in plain sight for billions of years.
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Photos: Antagain / Getty Images Scientists Crushed Fruit Flies With Extreme Gravity. Something Strange Happened Next.
The bugs were subjected to forces ranging from 4G to an absurd 13G.
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Ieang/Getty Images The Government Is Once Again Promising UFO Files That Will Change Everything
The government says new alien-related documents are coming soon, but experts think the big reveal will probably be underwhelming.
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Piranka/Getty Images A NASA Scientist Says She Died 3 Times and Saw the Afterlife
Ingrid Honkala says her near-death experiences convinced her that consciousness may continue beyond the body.
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Javier Zayas Photography/Getty Images Astronomers Just Found 27 Possible Planets Orbiting Two Suns. What Happens Next?
Researchers found 27 potential worlds orbiting two stars, suggesting twin-sun planets might not be quite so rare.
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Photo: Nzoka John / Getty Images This Asteroid Created a Cosmic Hiking Trail to Mars (and Scientists Want to Follow It)
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a shortcut to Mars?
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Photo: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/M.Weiss Scientists Finally Know Where Weirdo Comet 3I/ATLAS Came From
Maybe the next one will be an alien spacecraft.
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An Astronaut Filmed an ‘Earthset’ With His Phone, Proving Humans Really Did Go to Space
In an AI-driven era, people in a spaceship snuck behind the moon to capture smartphone images better than anything AI could dream up.
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Kevin Key/Slworking/Getty Images The Lyrid Meteor Shower Is Peaking Tonight, and the Viewing Conditions Are Shockingly Good
The lyrid meteor shower peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, and this year the sky is staying nice and dark.
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Roberto Machado Noa/Getty Images NASA Wants to See What Happens When You Start a Fire On the Moon
NASA wants to start a fire under lunar gravity just to see what happens. And maybe learn a thing or two about putting out a space fire.
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The Northern Lights Will Soon Be Visible in Unexpected Places. Here’s How to See Them.
A giant hole opened up in the sun’s atmosphere, and if you live in the right part of the country, you might want to go outside tonight.
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Credit: DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Scientists Just Finished an Insanely Detailed 3D Map of the Universe
After five years of scanning the sky, DESI has given scientists their best shot yet at figuring out whether dark energy is actually changing.
