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The BepiColombo Probe Just Took a Ridiculously Close Video of Venus as It Flew By
Two years after it left Earth, Mercury probe BepiColombo has completed the first of its first…
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches down on asteroid Bennu
The mission marks the space agency’s first landing on an asteroid. Read more at CNET…
A Supernova Exploded Perilously Close To Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
The Earth has been through a lot in the 4.5 billion or so years it’s been…
Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
It conveys electricity in the climate of a crisp fall day, but only under pressures comparable…
Physicists Just Confirmed The Upper Limit For The Speed of Sound in The Universe
Einstein’s theory of special relativity gave us the speed limit of the Universe – that of…
Physics Nobel Awarded for Darkest Secrets of the Universe
Black holes are incredibly simple: they’re said to have “no hair” meaning all distinctive features seem…
Weird Circles Keep Popping Up Around the World. Alan Turing Predicted Them in 1952.
Here’s what they mean—and how the legendary scientist got them so right. Read more at Popular…
There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.
Something is showering gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is. Read more…
Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s…
Crew Dragon Suffered More Damage Than Expected on Crewed Mission | Digital Trends
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon suffered some unexpected damage during its first crewed mission recently, but the company…
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
Simples rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic…
What’s the matter with the Universe? About 31%.
If you want to understand the Universe — and we do — you have to understand…
MIT researchers say their fusion reactor is “very likely to work”
A series of new papers “confirms that the design we’re working on is very likely to…
A Student Just Proved Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Possible
Now we can all go back to 2019. Read more…
There’s No Speed Limit in a Superfluid Universe. Now We Know Why
Superfluids are much like superconductors. In the cold, dense medium of a helium-3 superfluid, scientists recently…
Astronomers discover “pi Earth” planet that orbits every 3.14 days
Probably it should be called the Pi Planet. Read more at Futurism…
NASA says Artemis astronauts may not visit the lunar South Pole
NASA has had a primary focus for many months on putting astronauts back on the moon…
In A Complete Fluke, A European Spacecraft Is About To Fly Past Venus – And Could Look For Signs Of Life
On Monday, September 14, a team of scientists said they had found evidence for phosphine in…