6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (422+ words) New research turns lunar dust into building blocks for future infrastructure on the moon. As space agencies and private companies look toward sustained human presence on the moon, a fundamental challenge centers on how to build strong, durable infrastructure without…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (458+ words) On the fringes of the Milky Way, near a satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, researchers have discovered the most metal-poor, chemically primitive star ever found, according to new research. Composed primarily of hydrogen and helium and containing less…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (66+ words) futurity. org You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4. 0 International license. QR codes can tank hospitality experiences for older adults Why does winning affect how people feel about democracy? Inflammation tied to preference for digital socializing Add…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (749+ words) Unfortunately for science fiction fans, desert worlds outside our solar system are unlikely to host life, according to new research. The new work shows that an Earth-sized planet needs at least 20 to 50% of the water in Earth's oceans to maintain…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (489+ words) Dark matter decays could be the missing ingredient explaining how giant black holes formed before the first stars. A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes'some weighing as much as a billion suns'existing less than a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (643+ words) Planetary scientists have shown that the material that makes up the Earth originates exclusively from the inner solar system. Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed our Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (694+ words) Astronomers have collected rare evidence of two planets colliding. Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11, 000 light-years from Earth near the constellation…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (302+ words) Researchers have found that diamond dust is not a suitable particle for stratospheric aerosol injection that could cool the Earth. The field of solar geoengineering revolves around the idea of cooling the globe via the injection of aerosols to reflect…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (765+ words) Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets'including Earth'and survive, a new study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain hardy bacterium easily withstands extreme pressure comparable to an ejection from Mars after…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (627+ words) Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes'thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies'can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies millions of light-years away, according to a study....