Elon Musk isn’t the first person to propose the use of mass drivers on the moon. He’s following in the footsteps of space visionary Gerard O’Neill, who floated the idea back in 1974.
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A massive upheaval in the Saturnian system could have also led to the moon Hyperion.
China’s Shenzhou 21 crew rang in the Year of the Horse with an impressive celebration aboard the nation’s Tiangong Space Station that included filming a music video.
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Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the “Star Wars” planet Tatooine, are so scarce in our galaxy — and it has to do with general relativity.
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An organic molecule called methanimine was found scattered throughout a dense clump of gas and dust 554 light-years away.
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The puzzle Einstein and Rosen were addressing was never about space travel, but about how quantum fields behave in curved spacetime. I
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Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent and role in shaping the universe.
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As global tensions rise, the island has become a geopolitical pressure gauge, revealing how the old international legal order is beginning to fray.
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