Summary: A meter-class telescope with a coronagraph to block solar light, placed in the strong interference region of the solar gravitational lens (SGL), is capable of imaging an exoplanet at a distance of up to…
Monster Black Hole Found in the Early Universe
Summary: After more than a decade of searching for the first quasars, a team of astronomers used the NOIRLab’s Gemini Observatory and CTIO to discover the most massive quasar known in the early Universe —…
Breakthrough Listen Scans Kepler-160 System for Alien Technosignatures
Summary: The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of alien civilizations, has conducted a search for artificial radio emission associated with Kepler-160, a system of four planets that…
Planetary Researchers Explore Habitability of Europa’s Ocean
Summary: A duo of U.S. planetary scientists has calculated that water in the subsurface ocean of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa could have been formed by breakdown of water-containing minerals due to either tidal forces or…
SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily…
Summary: SpaceX is also starting to take action on plans to build floating launchpads for travel to the moon, Mars, and around Earth Original author and publication date: Vanessa Bates Ramírez - June 19, 2020…
Are planets with oceans common in the galaxy?…
Summary: More than a quarter of the exoplanets studied by NASA could be ocean worlds, with a majority possibly harboring oceans beneath layers of surface ice. Original author and publication date: NASA Goddard Space Flight…
Company plans space tourism flights in high-altitude balloon
Summary: "Spaceship Neptune," operated by a company called Space Perspective from leased facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, will carry eight passengers at a time on six-hour space flights. Original author and publication date: William…
Does Planet Nine really exist?
Summary: For the past few years, the possibility of a new (and big!) planet hanging around in the outermost regions of the solar system has tantalized scientists and the public alike. But after years of…
Lunar Mining Outpost Using Cybertruck Bulldozers
Summary: About twenty-five to thirty cybertrucks could be delivered to the moon with every SpaceX Starship Original author and publication date: Brian Wang - June 12, 2020 Futurizonte Editor's Note: What are we (humans) really…