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We’ve Never Been Closer to Finding Life Outside Our Solar System
[ad_1] In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life outside our solar system. Crucial to this…
Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
[ad_1] Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Alamy There is something strange about Earth. A few billion years ago, a process…
The End Is Near for NASA’s Voyager Probes
[ad_1] Saturn as captured by the Voyager program. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Once the Voyagers’ planetary journeys were over,…
The Mystery of How Supermassive Black Holes Merge
[ad_1] However, modeling has shown that it is difficult to scatter enough stars toward the black holes to…
The moon is just the beginning for this waterless concrete
[ad_1] Building a home base on the moon will demand a steep supply of moon-based infrastructure: launch pads,…
Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?
[ad_1] Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives.…
Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
[ad_1] Mars – the kind of place to raise your kids? ESA /MPS/OSIRIS/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA As a kind of living…
Lake of Darkness review: This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant
[ad_1] Something evil may be lurking in a black hole in Adam Roberts’s new novel Liuzishan/Getty Images Lake…
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
[ad_1] Disturbances in the ionosphere can interfere with radio communication and satellite navigation Shutterstock/buradaki Data from millions of…
2024 Booker prize goes to Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital, set over 24 hours on the ISS
[ad_1] The International Space Station MSFC/NASA Samantha Harvey, who has won the UK’s top fiction award, the Booker…