Canada will soon roll a rover onto the moon, and you can help name the pioneering machine. The Canadian Space Agency asked people around the world to pick from the…
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Origin of life research finds RNA can favor both left- and right-handed proteins
A diagram of left-handed and right-handed versions of the amino acid isovaline, found in the Murchison meteorite. Credit: NASA The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has…
Chandra and Hubble tune into ‘flame-throwing’ Guitar Nebula
Outline of the guitar shape in the X-ray and optical image. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries et al.; Optical: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI and (Palomar) Hale Telescope/Palomar/CalTech; Illustrated outline: NASA/CXC/K. DiVona;…
The not so ‘wicked’ path from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to the moon landing
Houston, we… are not in Kansas anymore. “The Wizard of Oz” and space exploration are two topics that by all rights should have nothing in common. But with the 1939…
New DESI data shed light on gravity’s pull in the universe
DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here during the 2023 Geminid meteor shower. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks Gravity has shaped our cosmos. Its attractive influence turned tiny differences…
SabersPro Luke lightsaber review: “A premium, supersaver saber for duellists”
The Luke lightsaber from SabersPro’s Character Sabers collection is inspired by the younger Skywalker’s second lightsaber, featured in Return of the Jedi. Need we remind you that his original hand-me-down…
How we’ll land large payloads on the Red Planet
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully…
Rocket startup ABL Space Systems ends orbital launch plans, pivots to missile defense
ABL Space Systems is dropping plans to compete in the launch market and is switching its focus to missile programs for U.S. national defense. ABL, founded in 2017, had attempted…
SpaceX launching 20 Starlink satellites from California early Nov. 18
SpaceX is set to launch 20 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California early Monday morning (Nov. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with…
A new way to detect daisy worlds
Daisy Worlds are planets where the biosphere regulates the environment to keep it habitable. Earth is one, sort of. Can we use information theory to identify agnostic biosignatures from these…
