Universe Today
Early Life Was Pumping Out Oxygen, But the Earth's Mantle Was Absorbing it
Once Starship Prototypes are Done Exploding, we could see an Orbital Launch this Year
According to a leaked internal email, SpaceX is all-in on the development of the Starship, which the company's chief engineer says could make an orbital flight before the end of the year.
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Titan is Drifting Away from Saturn Surprisingly Quickly
Neutron Stars Could Have a Layer of Exotic Quark Matter Inside Them
Deep inside a neutron star, neutrons are packed so tightly that they can break apart into quarks. As a result neutron stars likely have a quark core.
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It Should Be Easiest to Search for Young Earth-like Planets When They're Completely Covered in Magma
Hubble Photo of Globular Cluster NGC 6441, One of the Most Massive in the Milky Way
Astronomers Have Found the Star/Exoplanet Combo That's the Best Twin to the Sun/Earth
Is the Concept of a Habitable Zone Too Wide?
Exoplanets are often considered potentially habitable if they could have liquid water. But the necessities of biology set the habitability bar a bit higher.
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Rocks on Bennu are Cracking Because of the Constant Day/Night Cycling
At the Heart of the Milky Way, Stars Come Close to Each Other All the Time
A new study provides new estimates on how often stars near the center of our galaxy experience "close encounters," which could have serious implications for habitability studies.
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Gamma Rays Detected Coming From the Crab Nebula
Practical Ideas for Farming on the Moon and Mars
Recent research supported by NASA shows how algae-growing greenhouses could lead to colonies on the Moon and Mars that are largely self-sufficient
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There are powerful magnetic fields at the core of the Milky Way, driven by the supermassive black hole
Much of the Lithium Here on Earth Came from Exploding White Dwarf Stars
The Milky Way is surrounded by a huge hot halo of gas
A New Telescope is Ready to Start Searching for Answers to Explain Dark Energy
China will begin constructing its space station in 2021
Supermassive Black Holes Grew by Consuming Gas and Entire Stars
Interstellar Oumuamua Was a Dark Hydrogen Iceberg
Finally! Mars InSight's Mole is Now Underground
