Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small companion galaxies, slowly building up the bright central region and sweeping ...

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"Archaeology is not just about the very distant past," said Walsh, who is also a co-founder of Brick Moon, a consultancy in space habitat design and use. "It's about using objects, artifacts, built ...

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How do astronauts cope with life onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and how can scientists study it? This is what a recent study published in PLoS ONE hopes to address as an international ...

New results from the first archaeological fieldwork conducted in space show the International Space Station is a rich cultural landscape where crew create their own “gravity” to replace Earth’s, and ...

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