Avery Thompson
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Burlington, VT, United States
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Elon Musk Wants Global Broadband Internet. Here's His First Step
SpaceX's Starlink satellite network will have its first launch on Wednesday. → Read More
NASA Takes Groundbreaking Photos of Mars' Weirdest Moon
Is Phobos actually an asteroid or a chunk of the red planet itself? These images could provide crucial clues. → Read More
Scientists Blasted a Bunch of Super Lasers to Make This Exotic Space Ice
The experiment could help us learn more about Uranus, Neptune, and other gas giant planets in our galaxy. → Read More
Welp, Now We Have 20,000 Potentially Dangerous Asteroids to Worry About
Scientists have discovered more than 200 in the last month alone. → Read More
Here's How to Watch Google's 2019 I/O Developer Conference Live
Get a sneak peek at the company's upcoming hardware and software. → Read More
Watch Concrete Blow Up When Heated (and See Why It Happens)
The new research could result in more fire-safe concrete. → Read More
Two Neutron Stars Exploded in Our Cosmic Backyard Billions of Years Ago
And some of the remnants are still inside of us. → Read More
An Asteroid Will Come Incredibly Close to Earth in 2029
Grazing by some of our satellites, this asteroid has scientists excited. → Read More
The Moon May Have Formed From a Molten Magma Ocean on Earth
New research solves a longstanding mystery about the moon's makeup by proposing that the Earth had a molten crust when the moon was formed. → Read More
Maybe the First Discovered Exomoon Doesn't Exist After All
A new analysis casts doubt on the discovery of the first moon orbiting a planet in a different solar system. → Read More
Dark Matter Scientists Observe the Rarest Event in History
A dark matter detector in Italy has observed a once-in-a-billion-billion-lifetimes event. → Read More
See a Car's Inner Workings With This Homemade Gearbox
A custom gearbox built out of cardboard lets you see all the inner workings. → Read More
NASA Is Preparing for a Fake Asteroid Impact
At an upcoming planetary defense conference, NASA, FEMA, and a collection of other agencies will attempt to defend the Earth from a hypothetical asteroid. → Read More
You Can Drive This Trash Robot With Just an Internet Connection
AltruBots are designed to let anyone chip in and help clean up our world's waterways. → Read More
Scientists Made Bubbles of Sand, and That's a Big Deal
A group of scientists proved that sand can form lava lamp-style bubbles, which could have applications in geology and pharmaceuticals. → Read More
SpaceX's Explosive 'Anomaly' Could Delay the U.S.'s Return To Crewed Spaceflight
The U.S. hasn't launched a crewed space mission for nearly 8 years—and now we might have to wait a bit longer. → Read More
How Sonar Discovered a 16th Century Shipwreck by Accident
A team of scavengers discovered one of the oldest known shipwrecks, filled with tons of copper, entirely coincidentally. → Read More
Giant Meteor Explodes Over East Coast
The green fireball was seen by hundreds of people from Vermont to South Carolina. → Read More
Earth Was Hit by an Interstellar Asteroid Years Ago, Scientists Claim
Researchers calculate that an asateroid from beyond our solar system burned up in the atmosphere in 2014. → Read More
NASA's Newest Planet-Hunting Telescope Has Already Found an Earth-like World
NASA's TESS telescope was only launched a year ago, and is designed to find small Earth-sized exoplanets that may support life. → Read More