Grab your telescope: when it comes to astronomy, 2020 saved the best for last, with a fine opposition of the planet Mars coming right up next month on October 13th.
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According to a recent study, the presence of acidic and alkali fluids on the surface of Mars mean that its soil is not likely to hold onto evidence of past life.
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While recent studies suggest that dark matter interactions might create gamma rays, a new study of gamma rays in our galaxy throws shade on that idea.
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Thanks to the heroic efforts of firefighters, the Mt. Wilson Observatory is now safe from the California wildfires raging through the region.
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In a recent white paper, a team of scientists proposed that NASA's Artemis astronauts should also bring back samples of lunar ice to determine where the Moon's water comes from
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The Space Court Foundation hopes to play a pivotal role in the evolving domain of space law, which is going to become very important in the coming years!
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Much of the gold we find on Earth was created by colliding neutron stars, but astronomers now know gold must also be formed elsewhere.
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NASA is offering to pay commercial contractors to retrieve lunar regolith and rocks to demonstrate their ability to harvest resources on the Moon
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Elon Musk and SpaceX appear to be gearing up for a high-altitude hop test with the SN8 before the end of October!
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Dark matter is much more clumpy than we thought, which means some dark matter might be very cold.
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The Arecibo Observatory suffered some serious damage last month, but an assessment and investigation is underway and repairs will follow!
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China's mysterious reusable spaceplane recently launched and has returned to Earth after spending two days in space.
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In this latest installment in our Fermi series, we take a look at the possibility that advanced civilizations only have a brief window within which to communicate.
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China is almost finished its floating spaceport in the Yellow Sea, which will begin making regular launches and servicing rockets in the near future!
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A new study proposes that alien life could evolve from nuclear interactions rather than atomic ones.
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A new tool called the Black Hole Collision Calculator let's users see just how powerful a collision between a black hole and any other celestial object would be.
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It's one of the stranger observations in ancient literature.
A curious account comes to us by the 1st century AD Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, concerning the exploits of Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who notes that:
"The Sun's radiance makes the fix'd stars invisible in the daytime, although they are shining as much as in the night, which becomes manifest at a solar eclipse and also when the star is reflected in a very deep well."
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