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Don't Get Your Hopes Up for a City on the Moon
15+ min ago (1155+ words) Bezos said we should move heavy industry to the Moon. Musk says we'll have sustainable lunar cities. We know there's ancient water ice in craters on the Moon's poles, but there's not enough water to support a city....
New: Pentagon Admits On-Orbit Space Weapons for First Time
21+ min ago (494+ words) In what can only be described as something of a surprising development, the Secretary of the Air Force, Troy Meink, announced on Monday that the United States has already fielded on-orbit space defense weapons. "Today, we continue to ensure we…...
Venus May Have Had a Moon for Nearly 2 Billion Years—Before It Ate It - AOL
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (483+ words) To find out what might have happened if Venus had a moon of its own, a team of scientists ran simulations of the planet with a hypothetical satellite companion. In almost all scenarios, the Venusian moon’s fate was sealed as…...
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Where Your Elements Came From
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (285+ words) Explanation: The hydrogen in your body and present in every molecule of water came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. The carbon in your body was made by nuclear fusion in…...
Physicist: Famed 'Picard Maneuver' on Star Trek Works
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (284+ words) A famous Star Trek battle trick turns out to be better physics than the show ever claimed. As Popular Science explains, Brazilian physicist Níckolas de Aguiar Alves... Physicist: Famed 'Picard Maneuver' on Star Trek Works A famous Star Trek battle…...
U.S. Has Put ‘Space Control Weapons’ in Orbit
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (129+ words) “The U.S. military has deployed weapons into orbit, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said Monday, publicly acknowledging a capability in space that the Pentagon had kept largely secret,” the Washington Sun reports. Said Meink: “Today, we continue to ensure we…...
Russia Landed Venera 12 on Venus on December 21, 1978 and Venera 11 on December 25. Both Survived 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and Roughly 90 Atmospheres of Pressure. Neither Returned a Single Photograph, Because the Lens Caps Failed to Eject on Both.
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (295+ words) Venera 11 and Venera 12 were sent as a pair for redundancy. They shared the same mechanism, so launching two spacecraft simply reproduced the same failure twice....
Mercury Has Shrunk Even More than Planetary Scientists Thought | Sci.News
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (115+ words) The Solar System’s smallest planet has contracted by nearly 19 km (12 miles) across, as crater debris masked telltale wrinkles on its surface, according to new research led by the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research....
Colossal stars forged the Universe’s earliest clusters
5+ hour, 26+ min ago (545+ words) An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) has created a new model that sheds light on how…...
Could quantum information theory explain universe evolution? – Physics World
15+ hour, 55+ min ago (266+ words) The gravity from entropy (GfE) theory has been used to explain how low-entropy structures such as galaxies emerge and endure in a universe in which entropy increases with time. Using the theory, Ginestra Bianconi of the UK’s Queen Mary University…...