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Jun 12
2022

Learn about the astonishing discoveries and near-misses of the New Horizons mission to Pluto 🚀

#PlanetExplorers brings you epic stories of exploration and discovery around five bodies in our solar system, told by the scientists who love and study them.

Jun 12
2022

Scientists show how our brain is a mini representation of the universe! And it’s amazing

Jun 12
2022

Astronomers have discovered the brightest pulsar yet in the universe

Jun 12
2022

Repeating fast radio bursts from space are mysterious. This one is even weirder

This week, explore a mysterious burst of radio waves from space, meet a miraculous Galapagos tortoise, discover a fearsome dinosaur, learn what it takes to explore Venus, and more.

Jun 11
2022

Navigation Sensor on Mars Helicopter Dead, NASA Says

NASA’s Mars helicopter has run into a bit of trouble after 28 successful flights and well over an entire dusty Earth year into its mission on the Red Planet.

One of the four-pound rotorcraft’s navigation sensors has given out — an unfortunate new development, especially considering Martian winter is almost upon it. Extreme temperature swings could soon wreak havoc on the rest of the helicopter’s electronics.

But the team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab says their plucky rotorcraft isn’t finished yet.

Jun 10
2022

Europe will launch a ‘lurking’ probe in 2029 to watch for an interstellar comet

The probe will wait in space for a yet unknown, but very exciting, object to arrive.

Europe’s Comet Interceptor probe will lurk in space, waiting for a pristine interstellar comet to zoom by.

Jun 10
2022

NASA announces a new investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena

The agency will release a report on UAPs sometime next year after a nine-month investigation.

NASA will fund a “no more than $100,000 study” looking at what astrophysical data exists with unexplained origins led by astrophysicist David Spergel.

Jun 9
2022

Putting the theory of special relativity into practice

Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite philosophy known as the “mediocrity principle,” which, in essence, suggests that there’s really nothing special about Earth, the sun or the Milky Way galaxy compared to the rest of the universe.

Now, new research from CU Boulder adds yet another piece of evidence to the case for mediocrity: Galaxies are, on average, at rest with respect to the early universe. Jeremy Darling, a CU Boulder astrophysics professor, recently published this new cosmological finding in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

“What this research is telling us is that we have a funny motion, but that funny motion is consistent with everything we know about the universe —there’s nothing special going on here,” said Darling. “We’re not special as a galaxy or as observers.”

Jun 9
2022

Japan’s Asteroid Mission Return Sample Supports the Idea of Panspermia

Did life begin on Earth, or did it come from space? Amino acids, peptides and proteins may have an off-world origin giving credence to panspermia.

Twenty amino acids discovered in the sample materials returned provide evidence to support the evolving panspermia hypothesis.

Jun 9
2022

Krafft Ehricke: “Lunar Industrialization & Settlement—Birth of Polyglobal Civilization”

During my research, preparing my next presentations, i found this beautiful speech by Krafft Ehricke, in 1984, before he passed away.

Every single word is a precious teaching, a beautiful lecture on natural philosophy.

Ehricke was discussing against the claimed “limits to growth\.

The great space visionary Krafft A. Ehricke gave this comprehensive presentation on the industrialization and settlement of the Moon at the “Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century” conference, held Oct. 29–31, 1984, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC.

Ehricke’s accompanying paper can be found here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/books/lunar_bases/LSBchapter12.pdf.

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