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Space Exploration May 11, 2023

What if Titan Dragonfly had a fusion engine?

In a little over four years, NASA's Dragonfly mission will launch into space and begin its long journey towards Titan, Saturn's largest moon. As part of the New Frontiers program, this quadcopter will explore Titan's atmosphere, ...

Astronomy May 9, 2023

LISA will be a remarkable gravitational-wave observatory, but there's a way to make it 100 times more powerful

The first-time detection of Gravitational Waves (GW) by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 triggered a revolution in astronomy. This phenomenon consists of ripples in spacetime ...

Space Exploration May 3, 2023

European company designs a space station with artificial gravity

The International Space Station (ISS) is nearing the end of its service. While NASA and its partners have committed to keeping it in operation until 2030, plans are already in place for successor space stations that will ...

Space Exploration May 1, 2023

SpaceX Starship effectively grounded by FAA after in-flight explosion

It was an exciting time when, two weeks ago, SpaceX got the clearance it needed to conduct its first orbital flight test with the Starship and Super Heavy launch system. After years of waiting, SN flight tests, static fire ...

Astronomy Apr 21, 2023

The first light in the universe helps build a dark matter map

In the 1960s, astronomers began noticing a pervasive microwave background visible in all directions. Thereafter known as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the existence of this relic radiation confirmed the Big Bang ...

Plants & Animals Apr 18, 2023

Cold water, diverse survival strategies may be key to Chinook salmon success in a changing climate

A study published today in Fish & Fisheries offers a comprehensive look at the state of North American wild Chinook salmon. Its findings hold new insights for fisheries managers looking to address wide-ranging declines among ...

Astronomy Apr 18, 2023

Looking for potential radio technosignatures from extragalactic sources

It has been more than sixty years since Dr. Frank Drake (father of the Drake Equation) and his colleagues mounted the first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) survey. This was known as Project Ozma, which relied ...

Space Exploration Apr 6, 2023

China tests a Stirling engine in orbit

The China National Space Agency (CNSA) has made considerable progress in recent years with the development of its Long March 5 (CZ-5) rocket and the completion of its Tiangong-3 space station. The agency also turned heads ...

Space Exploration Mar 22, 2023

A new mission will search for habitable planets at Alpha Centauri

Alpha Centauri is our closest stellar neighbor, a binary star system located just 4.376 light-years away. Despite its proximity, repeated astronomical surveys have failed to find hard evidence of extrasolar planets in this ...

Astronomy Mar 14, 2023

Astronomers observe lone distant galaxy that appears to have consumed all of its former companions

Over 13 billion years ago, the first galaxies in the universe formed. They were elliptical, with intermediate black holes (IMBHs) at their centers surrounded by a halo of stars, gas, and dust. Over time, these galaxies evolved ...

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