A Rover To Mine Martian Volcanoes
hosting70318340@gmail.com Different parts of Mars have different advantages and disadvantages when it comes to their available resources, just like Earth. The polar caps are likely the most valuable in terms of…
“Black Hole Stars” Could Solve the Mystery of Little Red Dots
Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). The cut-out reveals the central black hole with it surrounding accretion disk. What makes this a black hole star is…
The Anthropic Argument: Nature Is the Way It Is Because We Exist
According to every experiment, the constants of nature appear to be constant. And this creates a really sticky, nasty, ugly problem for us: it looks like the constants are fine-tuned.…
Civilization Can’t Arise Without Plate Tectonics And Carbon Dioxide
While plate tectonics may not be absolutely necessary for life, they may be necessary for a technological civilization to arise. Habitability may be possible on a static world, but habitability…
Interstellar Objects Like Comet 3I/ATLAS Could Act As Planetary Seeds
The Gemini South Telescope captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it sped through the inner Solar System. The comet’s coma and tail are growing as it approaches…
Astronomers Catch a Planet in the Act of Being Born
Protoplanets are celestial objects in the act of forming into full planets within the gas and dust disks surrounding hot, young stars. These objects, often several times the mass of…
New Bright Comet SWAN Could Perform a Surprise October Show
A new comet approaching from sunward could make a fine dusk appearance in October. Hello. A bright new comet is now emerging from the Sun’s glare at dusk. It all…
Clusters and Chains of Stars Reveal a Dynamic Milky Way
Three data releases from the recently retired Gaia spacecraft show that far-flung parts of the Milky Way are connected by families of stars born in clusters. Some continue to travel…
Does the Multiverse Explain the Nature of the Universe?
One possibility to explain the constants of nature is that there’s more than one universe. That we live in a multiverse, with each different universe “sampling” different values of the…
New Evidence Says An Exploding Comet Wiped Out The Clovis Culture And Triggered The Younger Dryas
This photo of comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE was taken in July 2020. There’s no doubt that comets have struck Earth in the past, and some have exploded in the air…