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NASA officially greenlights $3.35 billion mission to Saturn’s moon Titan
Ars Technica· 3 days agoNASA has formally approved the robotic Dragonfly mission for full development, committing to a...
Strict new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down
Quartz· 18 hours agoCoal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule...
Where Is Everybody in Our Universe?
Smithsonian Magazine· 11 hours agoOut of the blue, Enrico Fermi (1901–54), a man well known for his ability to see to the heart of a problem, asked a simple question: Where is everybody? In the years since then, scientists have ...
The Sky This Week from April 19 to 26: Look out for bright Lyrids
Astronomy Magazine· 7 days agoCatch the Lyrid meteor shower, see a Full Pink Moon, and follow plenty of or solar system's planets...
How to watch the Lyrid meteor shower before the full moon
Washington Post· 6 days agoThe Lyrid meteor shower, active from April 15 to 29, will peak April 22 with about 18 meteors per hour. The meteors don’t typically have long trains but can produce bright flashes, known as ...
Pluto's 'heart' is yet another bummer for the dwarf planet
Mashable· 5 days agoBless Pluto’s heart. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft first snapped photos of an unusual...
Will We Know if TRAPPIST-1e has Life?
Universe Today· 3 days agoThe search for extrasolar planets is currently undergoing a seismic shift. With the deployment of the Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet...
How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
ExtremeTech· 6 days agoMany, if not most, stars are thought to have planets—some like ours, some fascinating and strange, and a few subject to such extremes they could never harbor anything we recognize as life. How ...
