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Only collaboration will get humans to the moon and Mars rock to Earth, space leaders say

NASA chief Jim Bridenstine and Jan Woerner, director-general of the European Space Agency, starred in a panel at the online International Astronautical Congress on Oct. 14 that also included a broader discussion about where the two agencies will go next.

Super-Earth exoplanets often have giant 'Jupiter' bodyguards

EarthSky

EarthSky

Planetary systems with both super-Earths and Jupiter-type planets may be common, according to a new study from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. Like in our own solar system, the giant planets would act as "bodyguards" protecting the smaller planets ...

Wall Street Journal

'Nose Dive' Review: Olfactory Bliss

Wall Street Journal

Human beings have a better sense of smell than you might expect. Sure, we're no bloodhounds, but a scientific study from 2014 estimated that the human nose could distinguish, in theory, up to a trillion different odors. The only problem is, it's very hard to ...

These Winged Dinosaurs Hurtled Through the Trees like Haywire Hang Gliders

The New York Times

The New York Times

During a blip in time in the late Jurassic, a dinosaur that weighed no more than a chinchilla flung itself from tree to tree, spread its wings and tried to soar. In theory, it sounds beautiful — an early attempt at flight before birds figured out the blueprint. In practice ...

Aliens watching us? Scientists spot 1000 nearby stars where ET could detect life on Earth

As humanity ramps up its search for alien life, we should keep in mind that E.T. might be hunting for us as well. A new study makes that point by identifying more than 1,000 nearby stars that are favorably positioned for spotting life on Earth. "If observers were ...

NASA picks Intuitive Machines to land an ice-mining drill on the moon

NASA has tapped the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines to land an ice-mining drill on the south pole of the moon in 2022. Advertisement. Under the deal, NASA will pay Intuitive Machines $47 million to deliver the space agency's Polar Resources ...

Scientific American

Can a Moon Base be Safe for Astronauts?

Scientific American

On August 4, 1972, the sun unleashed an incandescent whip of energy from its surface and flung it toward the planets. It was accompanied by a seething cloud of plasma called a coronal mass ejection, which traversed the nearly 150 million kilometers ...

Control ions for quantum computing and sensing via on-chip fiber optics

Walk into a quantum lab where scientists trap ions, and you'll find benchtops full of mirrors and lenses, all focusing lasers to hit an ion "trapped" in place above a chip. By using lasers to control ions, scientists have learned to harness ions as quantum bits, ...

NASA to announce 'exciting new discovery' about the moon on Monday

NASA wants you to get excited about the moon — or more specifically, about a mysterious new science result the agency plans to unveil on Monday (Oct. 26). Advertisement. For more details, we'll need to wait until a news conference at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 ...

Optical wiring for large quantum computers

The ion-trap chip with integrated waveguides. The laser light is fed into the chip via the optical fibres on the right. Credit: K. Metha / ETH Zurich. Researchers at ETH have demonstrated a new technique for carrying out sensitive quantum operations on atoms.