To survive interstellar travel, spacecraft need to be small and crewed by machines
Interstellar travel using current chemical rocket technology would require millions of years. However, advancements in genetics......
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[video] Aerospace startup proposes sled launch system to push planes into space
Radian Aerospace, a startup founded in 2016, is challenging the traditional concept of propulsion of rockets into space with an......
Astronomers discover black hole that sucks fuel out of its host galaxy
Using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has confirmed that supermassive black holes......
Red dwarfs are dangerous hosts to exoplanets
Planets floating within the habitable zone around red dwarfs have little chance to sustain life, because the far-ultraviolet......
Scientists reveal the ancestry of 90% of meteorites hitting Earth
Almost all meteorites – cosmic rocks that survive the travel through Earth’s atmosphere and hit the ground –......
Astronomers capture images of a different kind of galaxy
Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have been able to observe a galaxy's unique “inside-out” growth in the......
Parts of Sahara Desert flooded for first time in recorded history
A rare downpour left shimmering blue lagoons amidst the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara Desert, delivering more water to......
Scientist claims life on Earth might have been imported from Mars
About 2–2.5 billion years ago, life in the Solar System made a major shift from one planet onto another. Mars, on one hand,......
Humans won’t put their feet on Mars any time soon – kidneys are the problem
While billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is busy designing rockets that would take people to Mars, an international team of......
Mars hides massive structures under its surface
Researchers studying Mars' gravity variations have uncovered large, dense structures hidden beneath sediment layers, believed to......
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[video] An invisible electric field envelopes Earth, unknown until now
A collaborative team of international scientists, including those from NASA, has identified a weak, planet-wide electric field......
Could a waterworld 70+ light-years away harbor life?
Astronomers working with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified a distant exoplanet that may be entirely......
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