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What is the Steady State Hypothesis?
When it comes to cosmological theories, the Big Bang theory has historically had only one big contender - the Steady…
What is a Generation Ship?
The concept of a Generation Ship is a time-honored one, but is it the best way to send an interstellar…
Riding the Wave of a Supernova to Go Interstellar
A new paper by two Harvard professors explores the idea of using supernova as a means of high-speed interstellar travel…
Future Astronauts Could Enjoy Fresh Vegetables From an Autonomous Orbital Greenhouse
A team from a Russian polytechnic university is working on an autonomous space module where fresh vegetables could be grown…
Detecting Exoplanets Through Their Exoauroras
A team of scientists from the Netherlands have proposed an exciting new approach for finding exoplanets: look for signs of…
Comet Y4 Atlas in Outburst: First Good Comet for 2020?
Good news: Though we’ve been going through a cometary dry spell as of late, we may have our first good…
A New Kind of Rocket that’s Lightweight and Easier to Construct: a Rotating Detonating Engine. Unfortunately, it’s Also Completely Unpredictable
A new type of engine - known as the rotating detonation engine - could revolutionize rocketry and make space exploration…
Who was Aristotle?
In the history of science, few scholars have as much of an enduring influence as classical philosopher Aristotle, whose theories…
Solar Orbiter is Already Starting to Observe the Sun
The ESA's Solar Orbiter, which took to space over earlier this month, recently sent back its first batch of data…
SETI Researchers Release Petabytes of Data in the Search For Aliens
Breakthrough Listen, the most extensive SETI survey in history, has just made its second release of data, and its once…