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Some 25 underwater mines mysteriously exploded in the summer of 1972. A newly declassified report points its finger at a surprising culprit: the sun.
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It turns out that one of the oldest objects in the known universe is only a few thousand light years from Earth.
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A new paper about the bizarre interstellar visitor to our solar system says it may well be a lost alien spacecraft. But there's a big snag with that idea...
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We might not know exactly what produces mysterious fast radio bursts, but we're finally recording enough events to point the finger at potential culprits...
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A new mission to Mercury will test a quirk of general relativity. It won't be decisive and will involve a lot of precision measurement and tedious number-crunching. And it's exactly the kind of science we should be encouraging.
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Astronomers discovered a large proto-supercluster that shows us just how quickly the universe we see today organized itself.
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A recent Pew study about American attitudes on space exploration may seem like exciting news for NASA and space exploration advocates, but it doesn't ask the questions that really matter.
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Nuclear pasta isn't exactly an awe-inspiring name, but it may be the strongest substance in the universe and it's found in only in the crust of neutron stars.
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The first moon detected outside of our solar system may be a gas giant orbiting another gas giant and we're not sure how that happened. Unless it didn't start its life as a moon...
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We need big ideas if we're going to successfully transition to a post-industrial society.
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Despite their fearsome reputation, we simply wouldn't exist without black holes.
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Knowing how life started right here at home can tell us how likely it is to sprout on another world.
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A proposal for a Martian habitat wants to use the power of water for both structural support and radiation shielding.
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Despite the details still left to figure out, the Interplanetary Transport System is a solid start to a real infrastructure for space exploration.
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We typically think of Earth as an ideal world for habitability, but what we've discovered so far hints at us being an oddball.
