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A Global Community of Citizen Scientists Collaborate to Track 3I/ATLAS
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A Comet
New and commercially available "backyard" telescopes with advanced optics and tracking are helping citizen scientists across the world track TikTok's favorite interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, which NASA (and a concert of reputable scientists) say is definitely a comet.
Could Strange Creatures Lurk Beneath the Icy Shells of Ocean Worlds?
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Fishing
Several spacecraft are currently en route to the outer solar system to search for insights about that very mystery. If we ever do find life on these worlds—whether they be simple microbes or fantastical space whales—they might be literally in the dark about the great cosmic drama that is unfolding around us.
Dark Matter Detectives Are Searching for Tiny Black Holes
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Wait..what
It was first proposed that black holes could form directly from the small, random density fluctuations inherent to the chaotic primordial universe. The studies from which the idea emerged — pioneered by titans of cosmology like Stephen Hawking and Yakov Zeldovich — were not actually concerned with dark matter, but in recent decades primordial black holes have gained prominence as a compelling explanation for the substance’s origin and microphysical identity.
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A Global Community of Citizen Scientists Collaborate to Track 3I/ATLAS
New and commercially available "backyard" telescopes with advanced optics and tracking are helping citizen scientists across the world track TikTok's favorite interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, which NASA (and a concert of reputable scientists) say is definitely a comet.
October 7, 2025
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Could Strange Creatures Lurk Beneath the Icy Shells of Ocean Worlds?
Several spacecraft are currently en route to the outer solar system to search for insights about that very mystery. If we ever do find life on these worlds—whether they be simple microbes or fantastical space whales—they might be literally in the dark about the great cosmic drama that is unfolding around us.
September 30, 2025
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Dark Matter Detectives Are Searching for Tiny Black Holes
It was first proposed that black holes could form directly from the small, random density fluctuations inherent to the chaotic primordial universe. The studies from which the idea emerged — pioneered by titans of cosmology like Stephen Hawking and Yakov Zeldovich — were not actually concerned with dark matter, but in recent decades primordial black holes have gained prominence as a compelling explanation for the substance’s origin and microphysical identity.
September 23, 2025
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Editorial: How to Move Forward on UFO Sightings & Research
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the best path to shaping the public's understanding of this phenomenon is through the gathering and scientific analysis of sensor data. Can NASA, Enigma, and Avi Loeb's Galileo project handle the monumental task?
September 16, 2025
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40 Years Later: The Flaws and Timeless Themes of Carl Sagan's Contact
Such was Carl Sagan’s star power that, in 1981, he received a $2 million advance from Simon & Schuster to write Contact. Sagan must have had a hell of an agent: at the time it was the largest advance ever given to an author for a book that had not yet been written.
September 9, 2025
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Can Trump’s Golden Dome Stop a Nuke? Probably Not
The idea that Trump's Golden Dome can protect America from a nuclear attack is science fiction. Researchers are calling the proposed defense system “technically infeasible” and likely to “waste hundreds of billions of dollars on inherently ineffective systems.”