Fifty years after their first attempt to drill through the Earth's crust to the mantle, say that they very well could do so again. For the first time.
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Particle Acceleration Discovered in Tycho Supernova
X-Ray stripes have been found inside the Tycho Supernova, showing where the magnetic fields are, in not so many words, "right jacked."
Read More »Artifacts May Show That Man May Have Been Here Well Before the Clovis
Artifacts found in Texas may reveal that humans were in North America two-thousand years before the Clovis people came over from Asia.
Read More »Galaxy’s Coldest Star is as Hot as a Cup of Coffee
Scientists have found a brown dwarf star that they believe is only 207 degrees warm. If that's not cool enough, another star they're investigating is believed to be cooler than the human body.
Read More »Female Baboons May Be Subject to Domestic Violence
Believe it or not, certain species of baboons may subject each other to a primitive form of domestic violence.
Read More »NASA’s Kepler Satellite Went Silent — For Six Days
When a satellite that cost $600 million to build and operate goes silent for 144 hours, you're going to get a few peeved astronomers.
Read More »Behold! A Time-Lapse of the Aurora Borealis
If you weren't lucky enough to catch the latest "Northern Lights event," fear not! A time-lapse video can now show you every breathtaking moment of the spectacle.
Read More »Behold! This is How NASA Recovers Those Spent Rocket Boosters
Have you ever wondered what happened with those giant booster rockets once a shuttle is launched? ... seriously? Well, today's your lucky day, then!
Read More »The Florida Everglades are Garbage… No, Seriously.
The Florida Everglades, long thought to be just another side effect of Earth's ever-changing features, may now be a direct byproduct of ancient landfills.
Read More »Strange Weather Around Saturn
Methane rain storms on Titan? A storm that has encompassed 2/3rds of Saturn's northern hemisphere? It's been an active few months out 740 million miles from Earth.
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