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• Andrew Stroup

  

  19 hours ago

  NASA's mission to a weird metal asteroid will blast off ... soon

  Popular Science - Jon Kelvey

  If all goes well, NASA’s Psyche mission to a unique, metallic asteroid of the same name might launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A as soon as October 12—but keep your fingers crossed. Psyche had been scheduled to leave Earth on October 5, the first day of a window that stretches …

• Andrew Stroup

  

  3 days ago

  Life Should Exist On An Exoplanet 65 Light-Years Away, Says Study

  Forbes - Jamie Carter

  There could be 11,000 Earth-like exoplanets around sun-like stars within 326 light-years, according to a scientist. The mathematical study, which could help astronomers and astrobiologists in the hunt for life, also claims that life could exist on an exoplanet as little as 65 light-years away. The …

• Andrew Stroup

  

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  3 days ago

  China Is Looking Into Building a Moon Base in Lunar Crater

  theamazelab - Amaze Lab

  NASA has been planning a Moon base for awhile, hoping to get human feet back on the lunar surface by 2030 in search of a new building site. Now China, a country which recently completed the construction of its own space station currently orbiting our planet, might build one as well and they have an interesting concept.

• Andrew Stroup

  

  4 days ago

  Booster Delivery Marks NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Milestone

  FLYING Magazine - Jack Daleo

  After returning its mobile launch pad to Kennedy Space Center in August, NASA is putting the pieces together for its next marquee mission. In order …

• Andrew Stroup

  

  Forget Alien Megastructures. New Study Says We Need to Look For 'Service Worlds'.

  ScienceAlert - Matt Williams

  In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of …

• Andrew Stroup

  

  Astrophysicist Proposes a Genius New Way to Find Alien Megastructures

  ScienceAlert - Matt Williams

  In 1960, legendary physicist Freeman Dyson published his seminal paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation," wherein he …