Astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the rate at which the universe is expanding. But there’s also some unsettling news: The new number remains at odds with independent measurements of the early universe’s expansion, which could mean that there is something unknown about the makeup of the universe.
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NASA wants to send humans to Venus – here’s why that’s a brilliant idea
Popular science fiction of the early 20th century depicted Venus as some kind of wonderland of pleasantly warm temperatures, forests, swamps and even dinosaurs. In 1950, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Natural History Museum were soliciting reservations for the first space tourism mission, well before the modern era of Blue Origins, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. All you had to do was supply your address and tick the box for your preferred destination, which included Venus.
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Scientists believe they might have discovered a large subsurface river in Greenland
Flowing rivers are probably not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of Greenland and its seemingly endless amount of frozen vistas. Nonetheless, scientists uncovered that there might be a substantially large one underneath the surface, flowing from deep in its interior all the way to the northeastern coast.
