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The Moon bears its history on its skin. Earth’s only permanent natural satellite is scored and scarred with billions of years’ worth of cratering – a record of constant bombardment. … Read More
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all Notice: JavaScript is required for this … Read More
6 sparkly images of Eagle Nebula shared by NASA … Read More
Through the Artemis Program, NASA hopes to lay the foundations for a program of “sustained lunar exploration and development.” This will include regular missions to the surface, the creation of … Read More
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Multiverse.png. Credit: Silver Spoon The Anthropic Principle—stating that the universe we live in is fine-tuned to host life—was first proposed by Brandon Carter in 1973. Since then, it has sparked … Read More
Astronomers have discovered a hefty new Super-Earth that’s as dense as lead. This rocky world might just be the leftover core of a gas giant that flew too close to … Read More
The Hubble Space Telescope captured some weird, unidentified stuff in the most detailed photos ever taken of the immediate space surrounding a quasar. Quasars, a shortening of the term “quasi-stellar … Read More
Scientists found liquid water — and, surprisingly, life — at the bottom of a frozen Antarctic lake. The splendidly named Lake Enigma has an average temperature of -14°Celsius (6.8°Fahrenheit), and … Read More
The big picture: Most hydrogen production still relies on natural gas. However, a new technique that uses only sunlight and water could allow humanity to move away from using fossil … Read More
Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s … [+] evolution from a primordial soup to the haven for life … Read More
