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Europe is Considering a Metal Asteroid Mission of its Own
The European Space Agency is considering a mission to a metal-rich asteroid. The target is Kleopatra,…
Lunar Samples Identify Exactly When the Moon’s Largest Crater Formed
China’s Chang’e-6 mission has been exploring the largest crater on the Moon. It’s known as Aitken…
The Most Distant Known Galaxy Already Had Oxygen
One of the surprising discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is that galaxies formed…
The Star Grinder: A Cloud of Black Holes at the Center of the Milky Way
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. There is also a…
Why Can’t Physicists Decide if Warp Drives are Real?
In the years since Miguel Alcubierre came up with a warp drive solution in 1994, you…
We’re One Step Closer to a Giant Interferometer on the Moon
What’s on and in a star? What happens at an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions…
JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 5: Solar System Astronomy
Welcome back to our five-part examination of Webb’s Cycle 4 General Observations program. In the first…
LIGO Has Seen Several Intermediate Mass Black Hole Mergers
There are three known types of black holes: supermassive black holes that lurk in the hearts…
What Rules Actually Prohibit Us From Building a Warp Drive?
In 1994 Miguel Alcubierre was able to construct a valid solution to the equations of general…