Curvature of spacetime attracting uneven distribution of masses together
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Why the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft looks like a snowman
Just over a year ago, courtesy of NASA’s New Horizons mission, we were treated to images of 2014MU69, a small object 6.6 ...
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Dark matter could help us understand the origins of gamma radiation
Afaint glow of gamma radiation — the unresolved gamma-ray background — fills the sky. This energy is not evenly ...
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Why zero gravity is bad for our brains
NASA has made a commitment to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. This is an ambitious goal when you think that a typical round ...
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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 ...
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Scientists are taking zero-gravity flights to understand the brain's function in space
More than 500 people have traveled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects ...
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Scientists came up with a reasonable plan to build an elevator to the Moon
It's not quite a “Stairway to Heaven,” but scientists have come up with what appears to be a perfectly feasible plan ...
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Watch: NASA astronauts build gorgeous zero-gravity fires for science
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are tasked with conducting hundreds of experiments, but perhaps none ...
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Here's why animals behave strangely during lunar and solar eclipses
For most animals, the structure of their day – and indeed their year – depends on the light-dark cycle. These regular ...
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We can thank the Apollo moon missions for these widely used technologies
NASA’s Apollo programme was one of the most challenging technological achievements in the 20th century. Beyond the space ...
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Life can theoretically exist in a 2D universe
The wild and wacky world of physics just keeps getting stranger. A UC Davis physicist recently published research demonstrating ...
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Here's how we can change the Earth's orbit to escape the expanding sun
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth’s ...
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Here's why the crashed Israeli moon mission was still a tremendous contribution to science
It came so close. It even took a selfie. But with only a few kilometers left to descend, something went wrong and the spacecraft ...
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First black hole photo confirms Einstein's theory of relativity
Black holes are long-time superstars of science fiction. But their Hollywood fame is a little strange given that no-one has ...
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Scientists: Earth might be ripped apart by gravity when the Sun dies
If it weren’t for the sun constantly showering us with energy, there would be no life on Earth. But eventually stars like ...
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Scientists discover evidence of giant planet 13 times more massive than Jupiter
A team of Brazilian astronomers recently determined a giant exoplanet, over thirteen times more massive than Jupiter, is ...
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Gravity influences decision-making more than we can understand
Returning to Earth from the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield remarked how making the right ...
