Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as just the “Red Planet” — but new research suggests the Martian shade…
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Laser-powered device tested on Earth could help detect microbial fossils on Mars
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened on Mars? If…
Astronomers discover misshapen galaxy is a cosmic predator that bears ‘scars’ from its last meal (photo)
An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target. New images from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the European Southern…
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 149 — SpaceX, Moon Missions, and Killer Asteroids?
SpaceX, Moon Missions, and Killer Asteroids? – 2024 YR4, ISS Deorbiting, and NASA Budget Cuts – YouTube Watch On On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and…
Elon Musk calls for deorbit of International Space Station as soon as possible
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s latest space-related hammer throw is to call for it to be deorbited as soon as two years from now. In posts to X, Musk…
How Earth can defend itself against asteroid
The asteroid discovered in December is estimated to be 40-90 metres wide — roughly half the size of Dimorphos. There is a very small chance that an asteroid capable of…
Einstein wins again! Quarks obey relativity laws, Large Hadron Collider finds
Is there a time of day or night at which nature’s heaviest elementary particle stops obeying Einstein’s rules? The answer to that question, as bizarre as it seems, could tell…
Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over ‘abandoned’ ISS crew
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen speaks at the Kennedy Space Center in August 2023. The world’s richest man Elon Musk got into a heated row Thursday with a Danish astronaut who…
Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent,…
‘Jupiter Ascending’ came out 10 years ago, and we’re still not sure how the Matrix creator’s space opera went so wrong
Whenever someone brings up Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s body of work, The Matrix is always at the center of the conversation. Maybe Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas get some mentions…
