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• How to see the brightest constellations in your own backyard

  The dark skies of the great outdoors help people to see the wonders of space, either with the naked eye or using telescopes. That’s why observatories are usually placed in high altitudes or remote locations, where there’s often outstanding natural beauty and little light pollution. A ...

  • The Conversation

• NASA found hundreds of exoplanets — and is set to find thousands more

  Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these extrasolar planets – known as exoplanets – may be rocky and have a composition similar to Earth’s. Some may even harbor life. Over 99 percent ...

  • The Conversation

• Scientists discovered a galactic ghost — but there’s nothing paranormal about it

  It’s a classic Halloween tale. A group of ghost hunters visit a grand old house that is rumoured to be haunted. But after thoroughly exploring, they leave disappointed: there are no ghosts to be seen. Only later, when looking through their photographs of the place do they notice ...

  • The Conversation

• New evidence shows an extraterrestrial collision may have kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago

  What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago? In the space of just a couple of years, average temperatures abruptly dropped, resulting in temperatures as much as 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10°C) cooler in some regions of the Northern Hemisphere. If a drop like that ...

  • The Conversation

• Something is killing galaxies, and scientists don’t understand why

  In the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is being shut down and astronomers want to know why. The first ever Canadian-led large project on one of the world’s leading telescopes is hoping to do just that. The new program, called ...

  • The Conversation

• Why some scientists believe the world is a giant bubble-bath filled with infinite universes

  From where we're sitting, the universe is a big, smooth expanse full of giant stars and planets. When we use the most powerful measurement tools we have, to zoom in as close as we possibly can in hopes of seeing what's holding it all together, it still looks like a blank canvas. But, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• SpaceX aims to provide consumers broadband through Starlink by next year

  Elon Musk-owned SpaceX plans to start offering broadband through its Starlink satellite by the next year. SpaceX president and COO, Gwynne Shotwell, said yesterday the company is confident in achieving this goal. Shotwell mentioned during a media roundtable the company needs to ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Private Chinese space company aims to rival SpaceX with a reusable rocket by 2021

  i-Space, a Bejing-based space company, showed off its reusable rocket, Hyperbola-2,  for the first time in public last week. According to reports from the Chinese media, the firm aims to launch it into space in 2021.  The rocket uses liquid oxygen-methane propellants, and its ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Evolution tells us we might be the only intelligent life in the universe

  Are we alone in the universe? It comes down to whether intelligence is a probable outcome of natural selection or an improbable ...

  • The Conversation

• NATO’s going to call space a war zone, but don’t worry there won’t be any fighting

  At an upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a “warfighting domain,” partly in response ...

  • The Conversation

• Moon rocks could help us resurrect extinct species???

  Life is the last thing you would associate with the eternally dark craters of the lunar poles. But these craters could hold ...

  • The Conversation

• Jupiter’s Europa could contain life — and these missions aim to find it

  It’s brilliant news. In just over a decade, there will be two spacecraft exploring one of the most habitable worlds in ...

  • The Conversation