This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
If you’ve seen illustrations or models of the solar system, maybe you noticed that all the…
Category: 7. Science
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The evolutionary upside of same-sex sex among primates – The Washington Post
- The evolutionary upside of same-sex sex among primates The Washington Post
- Ecological and social pressures drive same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates Nature
- Can animals be gay? Yes, and loads of them are, experts find PinkNews
- Same-sex…
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NASA launches Pandora telescope, taking JWST’s search for habitable worlds to a new level
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.
Exoplanets are worlds that orbit…
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Strange discovery offers 'missing link' in planet formation: 'This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems' – Live Science
- Strange discovery offers ‘missing link’ in planet formation: ‘This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems’ Live Science
- The Galaxy’s Most Common Planets Have a Strange Childhood Universe Today
- Astronomers Weigh “Cotton…
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NASA offering Artemis II 'boarding passes' ahead of space launch – newscentermaine.com
- NASA offering Artemis II ‘boarding passes’ ahead of space launch newscentermaine.com
- Nasa’s mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad for Artemis II mission BBC
- Nasa readies its most powerful rocket for round-the-moon flight The Guardian
- Why…
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China conducts research on evolution of far side of Moon and samples from Chang’e-6 spacecraft
Scientists from Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG), Chinese Academy of Scienceshave now provided new insights using high-precision potassium isotope analysis of samples collected from the Moon’s far side…Continue Reading
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Giant iron bar found in the Ring Nebula may be a destroyed planet
Have you ever seen a cloud made of iron? You may not believe it, but deep inside a nebula that astronomers have studied for centuries, researchers have uncovered a massive bar-shaped cloud made almost entirely of iron atoms.
This glowing…
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Elon Musk unveils plans to take humanity to the Moon and Mars
Elon Musk embraced a video praising the starship, Space X’s 120-meter reusable…
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The Sky Today on Sunday, January 18: Catch Caroline’s Rose – Astronomy Magazine
- The Sky Today on Sunday, January 18: Catch Caroline’s Rose Astronomy Magazine
- This Week’s Sky at a Glance, January 16 – 25 Sky & Telescope
- January night skies one of the best months for Saskatchewan stargazing 980 CJME
- From a planetary parade…
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Startup aims to brighten night skies with space mirrors
The night sky could soon lose some of its natural darkness if a controversial space project…
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