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This Could Be the Closest We’ve Ever Been to Detecting Dark Matter

If these signals are confirmed, one team of scientists says that dark matter decay “remains the most reasonable explanation.”

By Jackie Appel

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A World-Changing Gamma Ray Laser Is on the Horizon. It Could One Day Unlock Interstellar Travel

By Manasee Wagh

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Warp Drives Are Possible—Aliens May Be Using Them

By Jordan Pearson

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The Universe Could Be Eternal, This Theory Says

By Stav Dimitropoulos

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How a Lunar Supercollider Could Upend Physics

By Caroline Delbert

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The History of Pi

By David Grossman

Deep Space

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Scientists Spot Largest Ever Black Hole Jet

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Could the Mysterious Betelgeuse Be Two Stars?

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Wormholes May Be a Portal for Interstellar Travel

By Manasee Wagh

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Do We Live in a Recycled Universe?

Moon and Mars

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A Wobble in Mars’ Orbit Could Detect Dark Matter

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The Earth Is Getting a New Mini-Moon

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A Hidden Ocean Is Lying Deep Within Mars Crust

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The Earth May Have Once Had Multiple Moons

Rockets

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Snorkeler Finds Huge Rocket Panel on Remote Island

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Starship Explosion Blew Open the Ionosphere

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The World’s Biggest Rocket Just Got Closer to Mars

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New Warp Drive Concept Is More Fact Than Fiction

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All About UFOs

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Where You Can Look at Every Single UFO Report Ever

By Esther D'Amico

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Ufology: From Fringe Field to Serious Science

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Physics-Defying UFOs Could Just Be Bad Data

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New UFO Footage Revealed in Congressional Hearing

By Kyle Mizokami

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Every Glorious Image From the James Webb Space Telescope (So Far)

Take a peek at all of the stars, galaxies, and breathtaking nebulas from the groundbreaking telescope.

By Manasee Wagh

Satellites

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SpaceX Will Make the ISS's Deorbiting Vehicle

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This Is the World's First Wooden Satellite

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SpaceX Is Working on a Shadowy Government Project

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Too Many ‘UFOs’ Are Actually Starlink Satellites

By Caroline Delbert

Solar System

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Earth-Destroying Asteroid Incoming? Just Nuke It.

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Is There a Second Kuiper Belt?

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How This 400-Year-Old Error Solved a Solar Mystery

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Solar Storms Could Soon Lose Their Mystery

By Jackie Appel

Telescopes

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How NASA’s Next Super Telescope Could Find Aliens

By Paul M. Sutter

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Euclid Just Released Its First Pictures

By Jackie Appel

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The Best Telescopes of 2023

By M. Josh Roberts

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The ESA Wants to Build an Inflatable Telescope

By Jackie Appel

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More Space

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Scientists Say That Earth May Have Once Had Rings

By Jackie Appel

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33 Space Gifts That Are Out of This World

By Tom Price and Rachel Klein

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Wow! Scientists May Have Cracked a Space Mystery.

By Jackie Appel

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Our Galaxy Might Not Be Doomed After All

By Jackie Appel

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Something is Wrong With Our Early Universe Models

By Jackie Appel

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‘Cosmic Fireballs’ Could Explain The Unexplainable

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NASA Finds Evidence of Past Martian Microbial Life

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Is This the Answer to the 'Final Parsec Problem'?

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20 Facts You Didn’t Know About Apollo 11

By Popular Mechanics Editors

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Scientists Spots Rare ‘Missing Link’ Black Hole

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Strange Eyeball Super-Earth May Be Habitable

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This Is What Flicked on the Lights of the Universe

new black hole images released

Scientists Spot the Milky Way’s ‘Exhaust Vent’

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‘Stranded’ Astronauts Are Nothing New

By Jackie Appel

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Can Quantum Physics Explain This Cosmic Mystery?

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3 New Super-Earths Just Dropped

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NASA Is Creating an Artificial Star (On Purpose)

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Can We Detect the Grav Waves of Alien Warp Drives?

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Scientist Just Spotted a Black Hole 'Waking Up'

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Microwave-Emitting Object Is a New Space Mystery