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- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 27, 2020
The NASA Perseverance Rover has a device aboard called MOXIE that will convert the air available on Mars into oxygen.
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- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- September 4, 2020
In a new study to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a research team led by University of Manchester astronomers extended a sample of 1,327 stellar systems recently observed by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative by including additional 288,315 stars that also reside within the target fields of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope in Australia — increasing the number of stars analyzed by a factor of more than 200. Their results suggest that less than 0.04% of stellar systems have the potential of hosting advanced civilizations with the equivalent or slightly more advanced radio technology than 21st century humans.
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- Space
- April 24, 2020
An unprecedented signal from unevenly sized objects gives astronomers rare insight into how black holes spin.
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- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2020
Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune’s two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research.
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- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- October 30, 2020
The company provided the bunker’s coordinates, just in case
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- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2020
How much would you be willing to spend to remove a piece of space debris? Does $102 million sound like enough? That is how much a contract between the European Space Agency (ESA) and a Swiss start-up named ClearSpace SA is worth, and the entire contract is to simply remove a single piece of space debris.
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