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Google maps won’t guide you to Mars – but will your compass work in space?
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A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.
There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.
On Earth, carbon can form millions of compounds, while silicon is largely stuck inside rocks. But elsewhere, silicon could form the basis of life.
OmnesViae is a modern route planner based on the roads of the Roman Empire.
In terms of the planets we’ve discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
Water is vital for life. Luckily for spacefaring humans, the solar system is full of it.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
After a wait of 397 years in orbit, we’re finally getting a truly ‘Great’ Conjunction. Recently, December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn finally met. Looking towards the southwest skies from […]
A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Don’t wait until Christmas to gift a telescope this year. All throughout the year, two bright lights have stood out in the post-sunset skies. Earlier this year, on March 31, 2020, […]
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.
For consumers of festive beverages, the news is bad: this holiday season, Guinness may not be on tap and glass for bottling wine is scarce. Climate disasters, like British Columbia’s floods, have further weakened already […]
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
Life finds a way — particularly if it has a moon.
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we’re going.
We just observed the first ‘lunar formation’ in an exoplanetary system. This one image, above, is the first to show moons actively forming around a planet. This colourful image shows […]
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is often labeled a quintessential Spanish artist, but his allegiance may well have lied with the French Enlightenment instead.
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
Jupiter’s mysterious auroral events are caused by vibrating waves of plasma.
A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”