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National Ignition Facility achieves net energy “gain” with laser-powered approach → Read More
NASA plans to end policy of giving most observers 1 year’s exclusive access to data → Read More
National Science Foundation decides to decommission iconic radio observatory → Read More
Alien hunters deploy new telescopes and tactics—and win some respect → Read More
Theorists say it’s technically possible, but it would be a weird place to live → Read More
Upgraded Arizona telescope will survey 35 million galaxies → Read More
NASA satellite has discovered two dozen nearby planets and expects hundreds more → Read More
Nearly 50 years after NASA put a small telescope on the Moon, astronomers are dusting off plans for new lunar observatories → Read More
Helium hydride detected by airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy telescope → Read More
On this week’s show: Radar readings from Mars suggest a large lake of water under one of the polar ice caps, how gender transition affects an athlete’s physiology and performance, and Andrew Lawler’s book The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke → Read More
Astronomers detect “gravitational redshift” for star moving at 3% the speed of light → Read More
Orbiting radar instrument finds martian analog to lake under Antarctic glaciers → Read More
On this week’s show: A search through an archive of galaxy spectra reveals long-sought—but never detected—medium-size black holes, and a comprehensive survey of global food production shows how we can lessen its environmental impact → Read More
2015 BZ509 has a weird orbit, likely because it is an interstellar interloper → Read More
Sunlike stars 4 light-years away have failed to yield exoplanets so far → Read More
Launch of James Webb Space Telescope now delayed to May 2020 → Read More
Cost of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope could exceed cap set by Congress → Read More
Elon Musk’s returning Tesla Roadster would burn up in the atmosphere → Read More
Summary Fifty years ago this month, the Outer Space Treaty came into force. To date, 105 nations are party to it, including the dozen or so countries with space-launch capabilities. But the agreement could soon be strained by forces that were only science fiction at the time of its drafting. These include a burgeoning commercial space industry that is preparing to send robots to asteroids and… → Read More
As Puerto Rico reels, researchers take stock of their aging but beloved radio dish → Read More