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5:32pm, 16th November, 2018

44 years after its first message to aliens, Arecibo Observatory calls for follow-up

A global contest will give the 1974 Arecibo Message a reboot. (Arecibo Observatory Illustration) The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years to the day since th...

Officials explain why they closed Sunspot Solar Observatory (and it wasn’t aliens)

11:57pm, 16th September, 2018

Space

Officials explain why they closed Sunspot Solar Observatory (and it wasn’t aliens)

The Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope is the centerpiece of the Sunspot Solar Observatory on Sacramento Peak in New Mexico. (National Science Foundation Photo) After days of fighting rumors about alien visitations, the managers of the Sunspot Solar Obs...

Antarctic IceCube observatory tracks a single neutrino to solve cosmic ray puzzle

10:16am, 12th July, 2018

Space

Antarctic IceCube observatory tracks a single neutrino to solve cosmic ray puzzle

In this artistic rendering, a blazar is accelerating protons that produce pions, which produce neutrinos and gamma rays. One neutrino’s path is represented by a blue line passing through Antarctica, while a gamma ray’s path is shown in pink. (IceCube...

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44 years after its first message to aliens, Arecibo Observatory calls for follow-up

Officials explain why they closed Sunspot Solar Observatory (and it wasn’t aliens)

Antarctic IceCube observatory tracks a single neutrino to solve cosmic ray puzzle

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