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The European Union has been wanting to improve its Space Agency for quite some time, as they have seen a lot of promising results in recent years. With the future likely taking place in space, it is now time to act and make major changes and investments. That seems to be exactly what the EU […]

Before the Kepler Space Telescope, we were not really sure how many exoplanets or those like our own were in our galaxy. It had been speculated, but no one could be sure. Kepler allowed us to see these planets for the very first time, and ever since, we’ve discovered many more. Sadly, the very first […]

This might be confusing to think about. The last vital ingredient for life? Were we not already alive? This concept is mostly revolving around what might be seen on other planets or moons, which connect to life. Just recently, we found a vital ingredient for life on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus. NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft revealed in […]

NASA’s Artemis 1 project is incredibly important if humanity is going to become an interstellar species. The first tests were launched recently, and now the first step of the Artemis Mission is finished. The Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja, California. It was the first step to getting […]

If you thought that a supercomputer would be able to start its own simulated universe, we would have laughed at you a few years ago. Today though, we’d be eating our words. Recently, a supercomputer managed to start an infant universe (based on our own) and show how it transforms from a featureless landscape to […]

Whenever meetings take place with members of the European Space Agency, you expect to hear a lot of interesting stuff. While there was quite a lot of news coming out of their meeting in Paris, France this past week, the big one has to do with the upcoming budget. The ESA’s budget will be increasing […]

Artemis 1 launched into space after over a decade of building and perfecting everything. It launched out of the Kennedy Space Center on November 16th, to the cheers of everyone at NASA and other international space agencies worldwide. The Orion Spacecraft was stacked on October 20th, marking the very first time a super-heavy-lift vehicle has […]

Ever wonder if we’ll find intelligent life in our galazy, with whom we could one day communicate with? With approximately 100 billion stars in our Milky Way, it certainly seems plausible that such a species or civilization might exist. The Drake Equation, developed by Frank Drake in 1961, is a tool to estimate these odds. […]

“Telescopes are in some ways like time machines. They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of […]