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Could a multiverse be hospitable to life?

A Multiverse—where our Universe is only one of many—might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to...

Space + Astronomy3 weeks ago

Astronomers find exoplanet atmosphere free of clouds

Scientists have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds, marking a pivotal breakthrough in the quest for greater understanding of the planets beyond our...
Space + Astronomy4 weeks ago

The Asteroid Starships project

A group of students and researchers at Delft University of Technology are designing a starship capable of keeping generations of crew alive as they cross the...
Space + Astronomy1 month ago

Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on Mars

As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet’s watery past comes into clearer focus. In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks...
Space + Astronomy1 month ago

NASA engineers dream big with small spacecraft

Many of NASA’s most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo—all large machines that could measure...
Space + Astronomy1 month ago

NASA’s Juno mission provides infrared tour of Jupiter’s north pole

Scientists working on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet’s polar regions, and...
Space + Astronomy1 month ago

The background hum of space could reveal hidden black holes

Deep space is not as silent as we have been led to believe. Every few minutes a pair of black holes smash into each other. These...
Space + Astronomy2 months ago

Astrophysicists map the infant universe in 3-D and discover 4,000 early galaxies

Astronomers today announce one of the largest 3D maps of the infant Universe, in a presentation at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in...
Space + Astronomy2 months ago

Artificial intelligence helps to predict likelihood of life on other worlds

Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of life on other planets, according to new work by a team based at Plymouth...
Space + Astronomy2 months ago

Astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from Earth

While astronomers routinely study galaxies much farther away, they’re visible only because they glow with the brightness of billions of stars. And a supernova, often brighter...

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Could a multiverse be hospitable to life?

Astronomers find exoplanet atmosphere free of clouds

The Asteroid Starships project

Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on Mars

NASA engineers dream big with small spacecraft

NASA’s Juno mission provides infrared tour of Jupiter’s north pole

The background hum of space could reveal hidden black holes

Astrophysicists map the infant universe in 3-D and discover 4,000 early galaxies

Artificial intelligence helps to predict likelihood of life on other worlds

Astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from Earth