9 Best Articles in 2020
Rolling Stone
Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
Rolling Stone
20+ min read · 365 saves · From 2017 · Inside Elon Musk's world-changing plans to inhabit outer space, revolutionize high-speed transportation, reinvent cars –?and find love along the way.
Quartz
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it's like a…
Quartz
3 min read · 303 saves · From 2016
Futurism
NASA fixes Mars lander by telling it to hit itself with a shovel
Futurism
1 min read · 293 saves · Mar 18th · The future of aerospace engineering is percussive maintenance.
Cosmos Magazine
Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude
Cosmos Magazine
3 min read · 241 saves · From 2017 · A super-precise measurement shows proton and antiproton have identical magnetic properties.
haaretz.com
If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human history
haaretz.com
4 min read · 229 saves · 2019-01-10 · Oded Carmeli
VICE
Something in Deep Space Is Sending Signals to Earth in Steady 16-Day Cycles
VICE
2 min read · 221 saves · Feb 7th · Scientists have discovered the first fast radio burst that beats at a steady rhythm, and the mysterious repeating signal is coming from the outskirts of another galaxy.
Brain Pickings
When Did Time Really Begin? The Little Loophole in the Big Bang
Brain Pickings
1 min read · 202 saves · May 25th · Maria Popova · A pleasurable warping of the figuring faculty to contemplate what was there before the before.
Inverse
NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth
Inverse
1 min read · 197 saves · Feb 7th · Thanks to some (very) remote engineering work by NASA, the intrepid explorer's science mission is back on.
dearmoon.earth
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dearmoon.earth
1 min read · 182 saves · From 2018 · I choose to go to the Moon, with artists - Yusaku Maezawa
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Scientific American
Endless Creation Out of Nothing
Scientific American
3 min read · 65 saves · Dec 12th · Could our universe have been an experiment by an ancient civilization?
Popular Mechanics
New Theory Casually Upends Space and Time
Popular Mechanics
4 min read · 61 saves · Dec 10th · Tim Childers · Forget what you thought you knew about the universe.
MIT Technology Review
This is what NASA wants to do when it gets to the moon
MIT Technology Review
4 min read · 44 saves · Dec 9th · A major reason for Artemis is to do science we’ve never done before. Here are NASA’s biggest research priorities when it finally goes back to the moon.
Ars Technica
So, it turns out SpaceX is pretty good at rocketing
Ars Technica
3 min read · 34 saves · Dec 10th · Eric Berger
ScienceAlert
Voyager mission finds a new type of electron burst at the edge of our solar system
ScienceAlert
2 min read · 34 saves · Dec 6th · The Voyager probes left our Solar System years ago, yet even as they travel through interstellar space, they are still detecting bursts of cosmic rays from our Sun, more than 23 billion kilometers (14…
Futurism
NASA suggests sending Boston Dynamics robodog to Mars
Futurism
1 min read · 29 saves · Dec 17th · That's one hell of a game of fetch.
The Atlantic Photo
2020 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
The Atlantic Photo
~12 min read · 28 saves · Dec 8th · Alan Taylor · Every day until Friday, December 25, we’ll present one new image of our universe from NASA’s orbiting telescope.
WIRED
A Clever Strategy to Distribute Covid Aid—With Satellite Data
WIRED
5 min read · 24 saves · Dec 17th · The small nation of Togo used image analysis algorithms to target economic support for its most vulnerable residents.
SPACE.com
China's Chang'e 5 moon lander is no more after successfully snagging lunar rocks
SPACE.com
2 min read · 22 saves · Dec 14th · Andrew Jones
Live Science
Moon has way (way) more craters than we thought
Live Science
4 min read · 17 saves · Dec 22nd · Scientists found more than 100,000 craters.
