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    When lakes lose their winter pulse: Climate change and the hidden Nitrogen story

    May 27, 2026May 27, 2026
  • Galaxies shaped by cosmic location just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang

    Galaxies shaped by cosmic location just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang

    May 27, 2026May 27, 2026
  • Mercury's polar water ice: new models suggest a larger, slower impact source

    Mercury’s polar water ice: new models suggest a larger, slower impact source

    May 26, 2026May 26, 2026
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    New Cell Therapy Offers Hope for Advanced Liver Disease Patients

    May 25, 2026May 25, 2026
  • Dark matter investigations: quantum limits and the classical field behavior of axions

    Dark matter investigations: quantum limits and the classical field behavior of axions

    May 25, 2026May 25, 2026
  • Shenzhou-23: paving the path to lunar and Martian expeditions

    Shenzhou-23: paving the path to lunar and Martian expeditions

    May 25, 2026May 25, 2026
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    Why Do Ears Pop on Planes? The Truth Nobody Told You

    May 24, 2026May 24, 2026
  • Sun emitting golden light rays across all eight planets of the solar system showing light travel time from Mercury to Neptune

    How Long Does Light Take to Cross Our Solar System?

    May 24, 2026May 24, 2026
  • NGC 5584 barred spiral galaxy in Virgo with purple star-forming arms and bright foreground stars

    Can NGC 5584 Prove the Universe Expands Too Fast?

    May 24, 2026May 24, 2026
  • Scale comparison of UY Scuti hypergiant (1.26 billion km) dwarfing Earth's orbit (300 million km) and the Sun (1.39 million km).

    How Big Is UY Scuti? Could This Star Swallow Our Solar System?

    May 23, 2026May 23, 2026
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When lakes lose their winter pulse: Climate change and the hidden Nitrogen story

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Map comparing Africa's 7,200 km width to Russia's 6,400 km, revealing how the Mercator projection distorts true continent sizes — Africa is wider than Russia in reality.+
  • Geography

Is Africa Smaller Than Russia? The Map Lied to You

Gerd DaniApril 2, 2026April 2, 20260

Why Does Africa Look Smaller Than Russia on Every Map You’ve Ever Seen? Have you ever stared at a world…

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Chandra X-ray and optical composite: a fast-growing supermassive black hole during Cosmic Noon (left) vs. a slower-growing one 3 billion light-years away (right). NASA/CXC.
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Why Are Supermassive Black Holes Starving?

Gerd DaniApril 2, 2026April 2, 20260

The Cosmic Hunger Strike: Why Supermassive Black Holes Are Growing So Slowly What if the most powerful objects in the…

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Hubble Space Telescope image of the ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, a faint ghostly glow with distant galaxies visible through it — the first galaxy found lacking dark.
  • AstroPhysics

Can Galaxies Exist Without Dark Matter? A Third One Says Yes

Gerd DaniApril 2, 2026April 2, 20260

Can Galaxies Exist Without Dark Matter? A Third Galaxy Says Yes What happens when the invisible glue that holds a…

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Four orange Artemis II Orion Crew Survival System spacesuits hanging on a rack at NASA Kennedy Space Center suit-up room with historical astronaut photo in background
  • Exploration

Why Are Artemis II Spacesuits Orange and Not White?

Gerd DaniApril 2, 2026April 2, 20263

Why Are NASA’s Artemis II Suits Orange Instead of White? Have you ever wondered why the astronauts heading to the…

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FreeAstroScience live party with hosts Gerd Dani, Flavia Ceccato, and Matthew Brahm watching the NASA Artemis II launch via YouTube live broadcast.
  • Exploration

Artemis II Has Launched: Are We Finally Going Back to the Moon?

Gerd DaniApril 2, 2026April 3, 20260

Humanity Returns to the Moon: The Historic Launch of Artemis II Have you ever looked up at the Moon and…

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Diagram of Van Allen radiation belts showing inner belt, outer belt, ISS orbit, GPS satellites, Van Allen Probes A and B, and geosynchronous orbit around Earth
  • AstroPhysics
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Did Van Allen Belts Stop the Moon Landings? Myth vs Fact

Gerd DaniApril 1, 2026April 1, 20260

Moon Missions and the Van Allen Belts: Can Science Silence the Conspiracy? What if one of humanity’s greatest achievements was…

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NASA Artemis SLS rocket on the launch pad at night with a full Moon rising behind it, showing the NASA logo and American flag on the spacecraft
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Why Haven’t We Been Back to the Moon in 50 Years?

Gerd DaniApril 1, 2026April 1, 20260

Why Haven’t We Gone Back to the Moon — and What Changed? If we landed on the Moon in 1969…

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NASA Space Launch System SLS rocket illuminated at night on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, ready for the Artemis II crewed Moon mission in April 2026
  • Exploration

Is Artemis II Humanity’s Real Return to the Moon?

Gerd DaniApril 1, 2026April 1, 20260

Artemis II: Humanity’s Bold Return to the Moon After 50 Years Have you ever looked up at the Moon and…

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Venn diagram showing how special relativity, gravitation, and quantum mechanics overlap to form general relativity, quantum field theory, and a theory of everything at the center.
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Can Quantum Gravity Explain the Big Bang’s First Moments?

Gerd DaniApril 1, 2026April 1, 20260

What If Quantum Gravity Drove the Universe’s First Breath? Have you ever wondered what happened at the very beginning —…

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NASA SLS rocket with Orion capsule on Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, silhouetted against a vivid orange sunset sky, ahead of the Artemis 2 mission launch in April 2026.
  • Exploration

Is Tonight’s Launch the Most Historic Since Apollo 17?

Gerd DaniApril 1, 2026April 1, 20260

What does it feel like to look back at Earth from 400,000 kilometres away — farther than any human has…

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