New deployable structures could help astronauts maintain muscle mass in space
From muscle atrophy to bone loss, astronauts face a number of health risks while in space.
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Astrobiology news
Saturn's icy moon may host a stable ocean fit for life
A new study led by researchers from Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona has provided the first evidence of significant heat flow at Enceladus's north pole, ...
Astrobiology
Nov 7, 2025
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Taking the moon's temperature with beeswax
Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the best ways to do that is to share the learning, and allow others to reproduce the work that might ...
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2025
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Chemists find clues to the origins of buckyballs in space
Far from Earth, in the vast expanses of space between stars, exists a treasure trove of carbon. There, in what scientists call the "interstellar medium," you can find a wide range of organic molecules—from honeycomblike polycyclic ...
Astrobiology
Nov 3, 2025
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Mission to Mars: How space exploration pushes the human body to its limits
On January 14, 2004, the United States announced a new "Vision for Space Exploration," promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, NASA's Artemis program is preparing to return astronauts ...
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2025
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Muscle tissue from a 3D printer—produced in zero gravity
Human health is the Achilles heel of space travel. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now succeeded in printing complex muscle tissue in zero gravity. This will enable drugs for space missions to be tested in the future.
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2025
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A mundane universe and the rarity of advanced civilizations
How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations (ETCs)? This is what a recent study posted to the ...
Astronomy
Oct 31, 2025
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Scientists find an explanation for oddball, water-rich exoplanets: They make their own water
As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for awhile. A new study, published in Nature, describes a process that might explain why a large portion ...
Large quantities of water are created as a natural consequence of planet formation, experimental work demonstrates
Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years, according to new research published in Nature ...
Astrobiology
Oct 30, 2025
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Postcards from ancient Mars: Isotopes illuminate early Martian climate
A new analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars's past to a time some 3.7 billion years ago, when it was warmer and wetter.
Astrobiology
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