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We Could Search for Aliens Harvesting Energy from their Pet Black Hole
Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we…
Here’s How Pluto and Charon Became a Bizarre Double Planet
On July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons probe made history by accomplishing the first flyby of…
NASA Lays Out Two New Options for Mars Sample Return
Months after deciding that its previous plan for bringing samples back from Mars wasn’t going to…
The Lunar Surface Remelted, Obscuring an Easy Answer to its True Age
How old is the Moon? Astronaut-gathered samples from the lunar surface put its age at about…
A CubeSat Mission Will Detect X-rays from GRBs and Black-Hole Mergers
The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One…
Venus is Important. We Should Take its Exploration Seriously.
When it comes to exploring our planetary neighbours, Mars tends to get a lot of the…
You’re Made of Carbon that Took a Journey into Intergalactic Space
I’ve used this fact a gazillion times; every atom in your body has been through the…
This Superbacteria can Withstand Enough Radiation to Kill a Person
Nature is filled with examples of extreme life (aka. extremophiles), which are so-called because they can…
An Early Supermassive Black Hole Took a Little Break Between Feasts
In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own…