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Sunbird: Nuclear fusion rocket by UK firm could cut Mars travel time by 50%
Scientists have toyed with the idea of nuclear rockets since the 1950s. Will they finally become a reality? UK startup Pulsar ...
Space on MSN15d
'Dark matter is more valuable than gold': Wobbly galaxies help shine a light on the universe's strangest stuff
Scientists have used the wobble of the Milky Way and what are known as "cosmic lighthouses" to shine a light on the mystery ...
Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down—and the source is not what astronomers expected
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...
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Pulsar Fusion’s Sunbird: The Nuclear Rocket That Could Take Us to Mars Faster
Imagine cutting a trip to Mars in half. That’s the promise of Sunbird, a groundbreaking nuclear fusion rocket concept ...
Scientific American25d
Where Are the Universe’s Missing Planets?
Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...
Physics World8d
Thirty years of the Square Kilometre Array: here’s what the world’s largest radio telescope project has achieved so far
When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and ...
Phys.org5d
Astronomy & Space news
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby pulsar wind nebula ... and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning ...
SciTech Daily29d
Are Alien Civilizations Using Spider Pulsars to Move Stars Across the Galaxy?
These pulses have exquisitely precise timing, and astronomers use them to determine cosmic distances. A spider pulsar is a pulsar with a companion, usually a red dwarf, a brown dwarf, or even a ...