Farming in Ancient Lake Agassiz
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Astronomers Find New Circumbinary “Tatooine-like” Planet Candidates
There’s a distinct category of exoworlds out there that orbit two stars. They’re called “circumbinary” planets and up until recently, astronomers had only found about 18 of them among the…
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4893-4899: Drilling at Campo Marte and a Visit From the Psyche Spacecraft
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A Brief-ish History of SETI. Part V: The First Interstellar Messengers
During the 1970s, the first interstellar probes were launched, carrying messages specifically designed to be intelligible to extraterrestrial species. The messages were essentially a “message in a bottle” intended for…
Johnson Photographers Honored for Award-Winning Portraits
Three photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center who inspire the world through visual storytelling earned top honors in the portrait category at the 2025 NASA Imagery Experts Program Annual Awards.…
Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system?
“This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth.”
Iron and Ice: Earth’s Passage Through the Interstellar Cloud
Our Solar System is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between the stars. On its path, Earth continuously accumulates iron-60, a…
European imaging companies step in to fill warzone gap
MILAN – As U.S. satellite imagery companies have pulled back from sharing visuals of Iran and the broader area around the Gulf conflict, European Earth-observation firms are moving to fill…
‘Voidverse’ is a seriously weird space fantasy novel from ‘The OA’s’ Damien Ober (interview)
‘For the atmosphere and world of ‘Voidverse’ to work, I needed the characters and the prose to meld with the setting.’
Why bringing back ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ isn’t the way
‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ should not have been a theatrical release… and it maybe shouldn’t exist at all