The Guide for the Next Decade of Space Research Just Dropped
Who pays for the United States’ astronomy and astrophysics projects—our collective staring into the void, seeking cosmic answers? Well, we all do, via taxes,…
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A Strange Radio Signal Was Just From Earth, Not Aliens
Last fall, a colleague of Sofia Sheikh’s posted a message in her group’s Slack channel, where members of the Breakthrough Listen Search for Extraterrestrial…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Drills a Mars Rock on Its Second Attempt
As the Perseverance rover drilled into a rock on Wednesday to collect a sample from Jezero Crater on Mars, Justin Simon, a planetary scientist at NASA’s…
Titan’s Strange Chemical World Gets Simulated in Tiny Tubes
The landscape of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is both familiar and strange. Like Earth, Titan has rivers, lakes, clouds, and falling raindrops, as well as…
Volcanoes Might Explain That Phosphine on Venus
Venus is often called Earth’s sister planet, a neighboring twin of similar density and size. But the resemblance stops there. As the hottest planet in our…
This Is How Aliens Might Search for Human Life
In the search for extraterrestrial life, we’re usually the ones doing the snooping. But Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer at Cornell University, wanted to…