The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
We’ve known of Europa’s existence for more than four centuries, but for most of that time, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon was
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The Biggest Questions: Why is the universe so complex and beautiful?
Why isn’t the universe boring? It could be. The number of subatomic particles in the universe is about 1080, a
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The Biggest Questions: Are we alone in the universe?
In 1977, the New York Times published an article titled “Seeking an End to Cosmic Loneliness,” describing physicists’ attempts to
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Inside NASA’s bid to make spacecraft as small as possible
The NASA probe’s retrorockets pressed desperately against the apricot afternoon skies of Mars. It was November 26, 2018, by Earth’s
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This startup wants to find out if humans can have babies in space
Egbert Edelbroek was acting as a sperm donor when he first wondered whether it’s possible to have babies in space.
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Why the first-ever space junk fine is such a big deal
We’ve just taken a major step toward cleaning up space junk. On Monday, October 2, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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These scientists live like astronauts without leaving Earth
This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. In January 2023, Tara Sweeney’s plane landed on Thwaites
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Future space food could be made from astronaut breath
The future of space food could be as simple—and weird—as a protein shake made with astronaut breath or a burger
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Earth is probably safe from a killer asteroid for 1,000 years
Put your feet up for a millennium. That’s the finding of a new study that tracked how many large asteroids
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