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Rooms with a view: Astronauts have design ideas for new space stations

"We're trying to take these next leaps into deep space exploration," said Crew-4 pilot and NASA astronaut Bob Farmer. "I think we need to really start thinking out of the box on a lot of these things. But first and foremost, if we're going to do human ...

Asteroid Ryugu was born out in the cold, in the solar system's earliest days

The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu formed far from the sun, in the cold depths of the outer solar system, according to new analysis of samples returned from Ryugu by the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission. Hayabusa2 collected two samples of material from Ryugu's ...

Watch Russia launch cargo spacecraft toward space station tonight

Russia will launch a robotic cargo spacecraft into orbit tonight (Oct. 25), and you can watch the action live. A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the uncrewed Progress 82 freighter toward the International Space Station (ISS) from the Russia-run ...

The hunt for habitable planets may have just gotten far more narrow, new study finds

CNN

CNN

Red dwarfs tend to be magnetically active, and erupt with intense flares that could strip a nearby planet's atmosphere over time, or make the surface inhospitable. NASA/ESA/STScI/G. Bacon.

Why Scientists Think Upcoming Mars Samples Could Hold Proof of Life

CNET

CNET

The researchers specifically suggest that any organisms buried beneath the ground would've survived the longest, and therefore, believe those beings' remains could still be lurking under Martian soil. So as upcoming missions, such ...

Puffy, Marshmallow-Like Planet Could Float in a Bathtub

Smithsonian

Smithsonian

Situated some 580 light-years away from Earth, the exoplanet is orbiting a red dwarf star in the Auriga constellation. Scientists located the distant gas giant using the 3.5-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory ...

Vertebrates May Have Used Vocal Communication More Than 100 Million Years Earlier Than We Thought

Scientific American

Scientific American

The finding has broader implications because of the evolutionary history of the species studied. The fact that these supposedly silent species all use sounds to communicate allowed researchers to trace vocalizations back to a common vertebrate ancestor ...

Astronomers discover a planetary system with a Neptune-mass planet and a massive sub-stellar object

An international team of astronomers reports the detection of a new planetary system by observing a nearby star known as HD 18599 (or TOI-179). It appears that this star is orbited by a Neptune-mass exoplanet and a massive sub-stellar object.

Neutron star HESS J1731-347 may be a 'strange' star

In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, Victor Doroshenko, Valery Suleimanov, Gerd Pühlhofer and Andrea Santangelo, describe a new approach to recalculate the distance of the star and their discovery of characteristics that suggest it ...

Big Think

New method could reveal novel, habitable exoplanets

Big Think

Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them. Half of all stars aren't singlet systems like our own, but exist as members of multi-star systems: binaries or greater.