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Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution.
The spacecraft is set to come closer to the star than any other Sun-facing camera before it.
Got $55 million lying around? If so, you might be able to score a spot aboard the International Space Station starting 2024.
Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
The intelligent life we are searching for doesn’t have to be humanoid.
New study figures out how stars produce gamma ray bursts.
A Mars Space Flight team member warns that people need to be prepared for what’s coming.
Viral ‘photo’ is composite image, but other map shows true and growing size of devastation
An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.
An ongoing experiment aboard the International Space Station aims to find out more about the fundamentals of combustion.
The Mars 2020 rover is set to launch in July of the same year, setting the stage for years and years of science on the Red Planet.
We have arrived: Big Think’s most popular video of 2019 tells us light exists outside of time.
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Russian astrophysicists propose the Casimir Effect causes the universe’s expansion to accelerate.
A 2020 space mission wants to use zero gravity to disable some of the hardest cancers to fight.
Next on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown, black holes may give us a glimpse of the underlying nature of reality.
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The Jerezo crater — where Mars 2020 is set to land — could be a good place to find signs of past life on Mars.
From anti-gravity pens to cool model kits, these space-themed gifts will make any star gazer very happy.
The space station sector has exciting potential as more private companies enter the conversation.
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The object, originally dubbed “Ultima Thule,” was renamed to “Arrokoth” due to the connection between the word “Thule” and the Nazis.
Entomologist William Romoser of Ohio University says NASA images depict insect- and reptile-like creatures on Mars.
A study found alarming changes in the bodies of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
When it comes new PR disasters, NASA isn’t taking any risks.
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When it comes time for humanity to pick a new home, where will we go?
A historic NASA probe sends back a treasure-trove of information from billions of miles away.
NASA’s intrepid Curiosity rolls upward into Mars history.
As many as 200 million people could fall permanently below the high tide line by 2100.
Lucy in the Sky film doesn’t deliver what it implies, but is a wacky docudrama instead.
NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller explains what astronomers actually do, and how can you become one.
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