Universe Today
If a Planet Has a Lot of Methane in its Atmosphere, Life is the Most Likely Cause
A Proposal for a Neutrino Detection Array Spanning 200,000 Square Kilometers
A Canadian Astronaut Will be on Artemis 2, Making it the Second Nation to Send Humans Into Deep Space (but not Walk on the Moon)
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have announced that a Canadian astronaut will fly as part of the Artemis II mission.
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If Axions Explain Dark Matter, it Could be Possible to Detect Them Nearby Neutron Stars
Astronomers look for dark matter in the radio signals of neutron stars. If found it could solve two problems in fundamental physics.
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NASA Announces its Artemis Astronauts: 18 People Training to Fly to the Moon
NASA has announced the names of the 18 astronauts that make up the Artemis Team. A select few, and some international partners, will be going back to the Moon!
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China's Planning to Launch a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory in the 2030s: TianQin. Here's how it'll Stack up Against LISA
This galaxy took only 500 million years to form
Beyond "Fermi's Paradox" XIV: What is the Aurora Hypothesis?
Is it possible that we haven't heard from aliens because colonizing exoplanets is hazardous to your health? So says the Aurora Hypothesis!
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Radio Emissions Have Been Detected from an Exoplanet
The European Extremely Large Telescope Just Got a 10% Budget Boost, Now Costing $1.5 Billion
Here are NASA's Science Priorities for the Artemis Missions
NASA has released the Artemis III Science Definition Team Report, which defines the science operations that the "first woman and next man" will conduct on the Moon in 2024.
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Here's Chang'e-5, Seen From Lunar Orbit
Images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show where the Chang'e-5 mission landed. The samples obtained by this lander were recently returned to Earth.
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Pictures are coming in from Solar Orbiter
The Kilonova-Chasing Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer is About to be Watching the Whole Sky
A Real River Valley on Mars, Filled With Virtual Water by @Kevinmgill
Visual artist Kevin M. Gill's latest creation is an image of what Hypanis valles (an ancient river channel) on Mars would have looked like with water flowing through it.
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A new Type of Atomic Clock Uses Entangled Atoms. At Most, it Would be off by 100 Milliseconds Since the Beginning of the Universe
Scientists have made a clock so accurate you wouldn't have to reset it for billions of years.
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Chuck Yeager, the First Man to Break the Sound Barrier has Died. He was 97
On Dec. 7th, 2020, legendary aviator Chuck Yeager died in hospital at the age of 97. He leaves behind a wife, three children, and a mountain of accomplishments!
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Astronomers Have Found Planet 9... in Another Solar System
Weekly Space Hangout: December 16, 2020 – John Powell Tells Us About PongSats and Airship to Orbit
China's Chang'e-5 Probe Drops Off Moon Samples at the Climax of a Historic Mission
