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While listening in on the atmosphere, a team of researchers from the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) picked up unexpected disturbances caused by a SpaceX rocket…

A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears…

Today, systems that cool buildings account for as much as 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That may seem like a small fraction, but it’s significant: double the emissions associated with all air travel, for example.

As the…

“I had got disillusioned with the state of the art of looking for life on other worlds,” Wong said. “I thought it was too narrowly constrained to life as we know it here on Earth, but life elsewhere may take a completely different…

When the first Polynesian settlers arrived on the shores of New Zealand somewhere between 1200 and 1300 CE, they would have been met by the vision of thousands of prehistoric…

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

The spacecraft, which has been creating a highly detailed three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars throughout…

A recent breakthrough in nanotechnology could drastically accelerate the timeline of future space missions. Scientists from the Delft University of Technology and Brown University have unveiled an ultra-light, laser-propelled photon sail that…