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The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on Earth, and are only visible along a narrow path. These events offer…

A cosmic particle detector has spotted a burst of strange radio signals from the ice of Antarctica that currently defy explanation. The results could hint at the existence of new particles, or interactions between particles currently unknown to…

Space is usually quiet at the frequencies that radio telescopes prize most. Over the last two years, however, scientists listening for whispers from the infant universe keep hearing radio signals from a loud new neighbor: SpaceX’s Starlink…

China is advancing the development of the technology it needs to try to beat NASA back to the moon.

The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) completed a pad abort test of its Mengzhou spacecraft today (June 17), marking another step…

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Our knowledge of future climate change is largely dependent on complex computer simulation models. These models are huge – they are made up of more than 1 million lines of computer code representing knowledge from dozens of scientific…

Big telescopes feature some of the finest and most precise mirrors in the world. So when one gets dirty, what happens?

What is it?

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) operates some of the most powerful telescopes in the world. Established in…

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment floats a range of instruments above Antarctica using a stratospheric…

“He is almost… in a diamond shape.”

Black Ice

There’s a huge black iceberg floating off the frigid coast of Northeastern Canada — and a photo of the strange structure is making waves online.

As fisherman Hallur Antoniussen explained in an