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There are Important Differences Between the Ice Caps on Mars
In the 17th century, astronomers Giovanni Domenica Cassini and Christian Huygens noted the presence of hazy white…
Archaeological Methods Reveal How Astronauts Work on the International Space Station
Archaeology is the study of human prehistory, so it seems incongruous to use its methods to…
Explaining Different Kinds of Meteor Showers. It’s the Way the Comet Crumbles
The Universe often puts on a good show for us down here on Earth but one…
Dark Oxygen Could Change Our Understanding of Habitability
The discovery of dark oxygen at an abyssal plain on the ocean floor generated a lot…
A Surprise Asteroid Lit Up the Sky Over the Philippines
With all of humanity’s telescopic eyes on the sky, it’s rare for an asteroid to take…
A Review of Humanity’s Planned Expansion Between the Earth and the Moon
Between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the Moon, there is a region of space measuring 384,400…
ESA’s Juice spacecraft flies through Van Allen radiation belts
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft successfully passed through Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, completing…
Simulating the Accretion Disk Around a Black Hole
Black holes are by their very nature, challenging to observe and difficult to spot. It’s usually…
Small asteroid to impact Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines on September 4, creating bright fireball
A small asteroid detected by the Mt. Lemmon Survey in Arizona, U.S. at 05:43 UTC today,…