Growing Future Meals in Space Will Require Human Waste
Reported by Universe Today
Future farmers on the Moon and Mars will have a big challenge: how to grow healthy food in two extremely unhealthy environments. That's because the soil on both worlds isn't at all hospitable to plants and animals. Neither are other conditions. Both are ir...
- By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:09 +0000
Get Ready For The Rubin Observatory's Deluge Of Discoveries
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We've been waiting a long time for the Vera Rubin Observatory to begin its work. The observatory features the largest digital camera ever built. It'll create a time-lapse of the southern night sky for ten years with its 3.2 gigapixel camera. An untold numb...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:03 +0000
The Universe's Most Extraordinary Construction Site
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Astronomers have discovered a extraordinary celestial construction site hiding behind a natural magnifying glass in space and what they've found is unlike anything seen before. A cluster of at least 11 galaxies, all building stars at a ferocious rate in th...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:39 +0000
The Stars That Lit Up the Early Milky Way
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Astronomers have used a special class of ancient, pulsating stars as celestial lighthouses to map the earliest chapter of our Galaxy's life and what they've found is rewriting what we thought we knew about how the Milky Way was born. By building the larges...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:04 +0000
Would Earth Still Be Habitable Without Us?
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Scientists have built a working model of Earth without any life on it and what they found might change how we search for aliens. By simulating 4.5 billion years of our planet's evolution minus every bacterium, plant, and creature that ever existed, they've...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:35 +0000
NASA Updates Artemis Program, Adding a Mission and Delaying Lunar Landing
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As part of a Golden Age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday the agency is increasing its cadence of missions under the Artemis program to achieve the national objective of returning American astronauts to the Moon and establishing an en...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:55 +0000