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NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are very low on power after nearly 50 years. How long can they keep going?

NASA's twin Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, both running on nuclear power, now have access to just a portion of the 470 ...

Stellaris is finally adding an "impossible" feature: "even mentioning it would make programmers cry"

Stellaris Nomads adds empires that travel the stars aboard Arkships instead of settling on a home planet, complete with ...
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Ewine van Dishoeck, astronomer: ‘We are the first generation who can bring the question of life on other planets from the realm of philosophy into real science’

The Dutch astrochemist visited Barcelona to take part in Cosmocaixa’s ‘Greats of Science’ series ...
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How the Giant Magellan Telescope got its mirrors

The powerful instrument promises to reveal the cosmos in greater detail than ever before. To accomplish this feat, engineers ...

Railway, Meet Milky Way: 5 Great Stargazing Trains

On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up.

Do look up: stargazing in New Zealand’s first dark sky community

It took 10 years for Naseby to achieve its DarkSky International certification. Now, a night out in the tiny Otago town is like ‘a tour through the history of the universe’ ...

Voyager 1 is about to become the first human-made object one full light-day from Earth, nearly 50 years after leaving our planet behind

Later in 2026, NASA’s Voyager 1 is expected to be about one light-day from Earth, meaning a radio command will take roughly a ...

Why Metroid Prime 4 definitely deserves its bad reputation – Reader’s Feature

After Metroid Prime 4 went unmentioned in Nintendo’s latest financial results, a reader tries to pinpoint exactly what wrong ...

10 Greatest Space Opera Movie Masterpieces of All Time, Ranked

The Empire Strikes Back, Dune: Part Two, and The Fifth Element are all among the absolute best space opera movies ever made.