Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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Impress your friends and family with some surprising facts about space and the weird stuff floating in it to start 2022.
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A group of scientists want Pluto to be considered a planet again, even if hundreds of other objects earn the same rank.
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Looking for worlds around other stars shows us just how weird and unusual our planet really is in the grand scheme of things.
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Astronomers detected a new, strange signal from the heart of our galaxy to the delight of social media users ready for a sign from an alien civilization…
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When stars get too close to each other the encounters can end in cannibalism, massive explosions, and even parasitic infestations.
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Neutron stars’ thunder is usually stolen by black holes, but these bizarre objects living on the edge of physics create plenty of fascinating phenomena all on their own.
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Water usually means life. But could too much water snuff out life before it has a chance to evolve?
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Astronomers looking into the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects may have found a flaw in data we thought pointed to the existence of a large planet beyond Neptune’s orbit.
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When some stars die, they take their entire systems with them. Others appear to give their planets a fighting chance.
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A new study sees evidence of more than a dozen galaxies that seem to lack dark matter and raises big questions about our ideas of galaxy formation.