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Dormancy Could Be One of the Keys to Life on Earth (and Beyond)
It’s easy to forget that, despite life having existed on Earth for billions of years and…
The Wavey Reality Behind the Uncertainty Principle
It’s turns out that you don’t need a high-powered quantum experiment to observe Heisenberg’s uncertainty Principle.…
BepiColombo Just Completed its Sixth Flyby of Mercury. Here are the Best Images
It’s not unusual for space probes to complete gravitational flyby manoeuvres en route to their destination.…
Planets Can Form in Even the Harshest Conditions
According to the most widely held astronomical model (the Nebular Hypothesis), new stars are born from…
Could We Detect Advanced Civilisations by their Industrial Pollution? Probably Not.
The hunt for aliens goes hand in hand with the hunt for habitable planets. Astronomers are…
NASA is Sending a Vacuum Cleaner to the Moon
By the end of this decade, NASA, the Chinese National Space Agency (CNSA), Roscosmos, and other…
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) rapidly brightens as it nears the Sun, enters LASCO C3 field of view
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) is currently descending toward the Sun and is expected to reach perihelion…
Protecting Computers from Space Radiation
Computers are an integral part of space exploration, keeping them functioning when away from Earth. The…
Very bright fireball observed over Spain, meteorites expected
A very bright fireball was observed over the skies of Spain outshining the Moon in the…