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Venus, once billed as Earth's twin, is a hothouse (and a tantalizing target in the search for life)

Our view of Venus has evolved from a dinosaur-rich swamp world to a planet where life may hide in the clouds. Shares. Comments (0). An artist's concept showing a super-Venus on the left and Earth on the right. (Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ames).

The sun has begun a new solar weather cycle. It should be pretty quiet, scientists say.

The sun is officially nine months into a new solar weather cycle, scientists have confirmed, and it will likely look much like its predecessor, which ran from 2008 to 2019. Advertisement. Scientists predict that the sun's new activity phase, called solar cycle 25, ...

As the possibility of going to space grows, US astronauts still don't know how they get picked to fly

Washington Post

Washington Post

Like its overachieving predecessors, full of doctorates and service medals, the newest class of NASA astronauts has its share of decorated military officers and esteemed scientists — even a Navy SEAL who got his medical degree from Harvard. Previous ...

CNN

The sun has started a new solar cycle, experts say

CNN

(CNN) Every 11 years, the sun completes a solar cycle of calm and stormy activity and begins a new one. It's important to understand the solar cycle because space weather caused by the sun -- eruptions like solar flares and coronal mass ejection events ...

Life on Venus? Breakthrough Initiatives funds study of possible biosignature detection

The detection of a possible sign of life in Venus' clouds is just the beginning. On Monday (Sept. 14), researchers announced that they'd spotted the fingerprint of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, at an altitude where temperatures and pressures are similar to ...

The first commercial airlock is heading to the International Space Station later this year

The Verge

The Verge

Later this year, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will take off from central Florida, carrying a large metal cup destined to be attached to the outside of the International Space Station. The hardware is a first-of-its-kind commercial airlock, designed to get payloads and ...

The Search for Life on Venus Could Start With This Private Company

The New York Times

The New York Times

Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars with his rocket company SpaceX. Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, wants a trillion people living in space. But the chief executive of one private space company is approaching space exploration differently, and now ...

Carbon-rich alien planets could be made of diamonds

Some far-off alien planets could be made of diamonds, scientists say. With the right conditions like the presence of water heat and pressure, exoplanets with high concentrations of carbon could turn into diamonds, scientists found in a new study.

Elements of surprise: Neutron stars contribute little, but something's making gold, research finds

Neutron star collisions do not create the quantity of chemical elements previously assumed, a new analysis of galaxy evolution finds. The research also reveals that current models can't explain the amount of gold in the cosmos—creating an astronomical ...

Successful improvement of the catalytic activity of photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixing enzyme Rubisco

A research group consisting of Associate Professor Fukayama Hiroshi (Kobe University, Graduate School of Agricultural Science) and Professor Matsumura Hiroyoshi (Ritsumeikan University) et al. have succeeded in greatly increasing the catalytic activity of ...