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May 2021

Japanese Billionaire Reveals His Round-the-Moon Crew December 9, 2022
Four years after announcing that he’d lead an around-the-moon mission aboard SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has named the eight people he wants to fly with him. In 2018, Maezawa said he’d fund a mission aimed at letting creative artists on the level of the late Pablo Picasso or Michael Jackson experience a […]
Alan Boyle
Astronomers Have Found Two Temperate Super-Earths Orbiting a Nearby Red Dwarf December 8, 2022
A team of astronomers has found two Super-Earths orbiting a red dwarf about 114 light-years away. The star, named LP 890-9, is the second coolest star found that hosts planets. Both the planets are likely temperate, and one of them “… is the second-most favourable habitable-zone terrestrial planet known so far,” according to the paper […]
Evan Gough
There's a Giant Magma Plume on Mars, Bulging the Surface out Across a Vast Region December 8, 2022
Scientists find more evidence that a magma plume could exist beneath Elysium Planitia, proving Mars might still be volcanically active The post There's a Giant Magma Plume on Mars, Bulging the Surface out Across a Vast Region appeared first on Universe Today.
Matt Williams
Trading Spaces: How Swapping Stars Create Hot Jupiters December 8, 2022
Star clusters tend to host more hot Jupiters than average, but why? A team of astronomers have proposed a new solution, and it involves a lot of swapping of stellar neighbors. When astronomers first began studying exoplanets they were surprised to find an entirely new class of object. These are the so-called hot Jupiters, which […]
Paul M. Sutter
Meteorites Bathed in Gamma Rays Produce More Amino Acids and Could Have Helped Life get Going on Earth December 8, 2022
Our modern telescopes are more powerful than their predecessors, and our research is more focused than ever. We keep discovering new things about the Solar System and finding answers to long-standing questions. But one of the big questions we still don’t have an answer for is: ‘How did life on Earth begin?’ We won’t answer […]
Evan Gough