Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites…
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A holistic look at Earth’s chemical cycling sheds light on how the planet stays habitable
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain We all know Earth is special, but we may not fully appreciate…
The spring equinox is here. What does that mean?
Visitors hold their hands out to receive the sun’s energy as they celebrate the Spring equinox…
What the climate of Arrakis can tell us about the hunt for habitable exoplanets
Credit: BFA / Warner Bros Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message…
Our survey of the sky is uncovering the secrets of how planets are born
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/C. Ginski, A.…
New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
Angular diameter distance as a function of redshift in CCC+TL and ΛCDM models. Credit: The Astrophysical…
The new heavyweight contender in the universe
Einasto supercluster. Credit: Shishir Sankhyayan An international team of scientists led by astronomers from Tartu Observatory…
Businesses are ready for April’s total solar eclipse with celestial-themed doughnuts and beer
A donut with toppings representing an eclipse is displayed at the Donut Dude shop on Friday,…
Protein fragments ID two new ‘extremophile’ microbes—and may help find alien life
Protein fragments identified new types of extremophiles, which survive harsh environments on Earth, and could someday…
The ‘baritone’ of red giants refines cosmic distance measurements
The Large Magellanic cloud. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever (Montana State University) Image processing: Travis Rector (University of…