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As We Explore the Solar System, Radiation Will Be One of Our Greatest Threats
The Sun can kill. Until Earth developed its ozone layer hundreds of millions of years ago,…
LIGO Fails to Find Continuous Gravitational Waves From Pulsars
In February 2016, scientists working for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made history by announcing…
Astronauts Deploy the First Wooden Satellite into Orbit
Wood has been a mainstay of human machines and construction for millennia. Its physical properties offer…
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…