Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades....
“Things that we said would come to pass are coming to pass.”
An interesting, deliberately thought provoking 🤔 question for a lazy long weekend Sunday morning…...
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Starlink satellites can disturb observation even of those telescopes protected by radio-quiet zones.
A new study provides some theoretical underpinning to warp drives, suggesting that the superfast propulsion tech may not forever elude humanity....
"This is now becoming so real."
The final resting place of Russia’s failed Luna-25 lunar lander has apparently been found....
NASA’s Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat alone on a dune.
White holes are mathematically possible, according to general relativity. But does that mean they're actually out there?
Fresh off its success at the moon, India is now headed for the sun....
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Will the Epiphany Transporter finally bring us the flying taxis of the future?
One method is epigenome engineering and would target genes advantageous for space. Another method is to combine the DNA of other species (i.e. tardigrades) with human cells to make humans better fit for space....
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