3+ hour, 55+ min ago   (565+ words) Futura, le média qui explore le monde Why the search for alien life might start in lunar soil A different kind of technosignature Searching for radio signals assumes alien civilizations are broadcasting at the precise moment humanity is listening. Pinault’s…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (216+ words) Strangely enough, Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos were discovered much later than the moons of far more distant gas giants like Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Yet, scientists have long debated the true origins of these pint-sized satellites. Unraveling their history…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (437+ words) Roman’s flagship planet-hunting technique, gravitational microlensing, harnesses Einstein’s general theory of relativity. When a foreground star passes precisely in front of a background star, the foreground star’s gravity acts as a natural magnifying glass, bending and amplifying the background light....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (386+ words) The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single author, every article published under this signature is the result of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (326+ words) Of course, the story of the Chang’e 4 lunar lander comes to mind. For a few days, life did manage to spring up on the Moon—a cotton seed germinated onboard Chang’e 4, bringing a brief spark of life to that dusty…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (304+ words) During the 25 day Artemis I mission in November 2022, two mannequin-like torso phantoms occupied the Orion capsule. Built from custom plastics mimicking human tissue, bone, and organs, each phantom held over 5,600 sensors. Both modeled adult female anatomy, as biological research shows…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (135+ words) For over two millennia, astronomers used solar eclipses to calculate planetary distances and refine orbital models. In 1919, observations of starlight bending around an eclipsed Sun provided the first empirical confirmation of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Eclipses on Mars…...