The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
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Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan enlightens listeners with lessons from space to ignite a sense of purpose to unlock potential, navigate change, and create opportunity.
If the past is any guide, things are going to take off quickly.
This research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells in the liquid water ocean hidden beneath Enceladus’s icy crust.
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.
“The physics of the universe doesn’t predict the emergence of biology.” Glasgow chemist Lee Cronin explains how inanimate matter becomes evolutionary:
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NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.
Experts answer 10 big questions about the nightmare scenario that could send us back to the pre-Space Age.
Well-preserved ancient plants and other finds at the Clarkia fossil beds hint at what kind of evidence any Martian life may have left behind.
See the 3 biggest space stories from October 16-22, 2023.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
This beautiful JWST image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 has been called a “prelude to a supernova” by NASA. That might be entirely wrong.
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
Thanks to the Coriolis force, hurricanes never cross the equator.
In December 1968, human beings made their first-ever journey to the Moon aboard Apollo 8. Their most important discovery? Planet Earth.
Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—the Sun is throwing a tantrum right on schedule.
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a stranded space factory, Jeff Bezos’ new moon lander, and more.
Physicists have increasingly begun to view life as information-processing “states of matter” that require special consideration.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
It’s not about fairness. It’s about using every possible advantage.
Scientists have created a magnificent portrait of every connection among neurons in a fruit fly’s brain.
Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
This first-of-its-kind image offers a detailed look at the magnetic fields within the Central Molecular Zone.
Physicists recently created Coordinated Lunar Time, a time zone for our Moon.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.