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Space.com

In a draft paper, the pair said it is feasible an extraterrestrial spaceship could be in our galactic neighborhood, exploring the region by the means of “dandelion seeds” — small spacecraft that can gather and send back information, similar to the way …

Space.com

Biosignature probability maps from convolutional neural network models and statistical ecology data. The colors in a) indicate the probability of biosignature detection. In b) is a visible image of a gypsum dome geologic feature (left) …

Space.com

New images of Uranus and Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal how weather slowly changes on these giant, distant planets. Unlike Earthly weather that changes from day to day, atmospheric conditions on …

CNN

Topping off the planetary parade will be Mars, sitting in a straight line up from Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and the moon. It’s easy to pick out because of its signature orange tint, Hummels added.

Space.com

The near-Earth asteroid, known as 2023 DZ2, is thought to be 140 to 310 feet (40 to 95 meters) wide. At around 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT), it will zoom within 107,500 miles (173,000 kilometers) of our planet, according to astronomer Gianluca Masi, who runs …

The Weather Channel

Scientists have left no stone unturned in their quest to find alien life — quite literally in some cases if we were to consider missions that are busy collecting Martian rock samples. But of late, an increasing number of studies point to the …

Forbes

All of which begs the question: Why do mainstream rocket scientists and theoretical physicists appear to be so reluctant to discuss interstellar propulsion? The distances are vast, and the energies required …

Phys.Org

The black particles from an asteroid some 300 million kilometers away look unremarkable, like pieces of charcoal, but they hold a component of life itself. Scientists have discovered the chemical compound uracil, one of the building blocks of RNA, …

Astronomy Magazine

Watching dust kicked up from the martian surface by the rotors of a human-made helicopter never gets old. Neither does point-of-view footage of said helicopter landing safely back on the ground — which has now happened 48 straight times.

UW News

An international team of scientists has for the first time detected neutrinos created by a particle collider. The discovery, announced March 19 by the Forward Search Experiment — or FASER collaboration — at the 57th Rencontres de Moriond Electroweak …