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[Space Bites] Weakening Dark Energy // Lunar Radio Telescope // Fuel Depots for Space

24 min • 1 augusti 2025

More evidence that dark energy is weakening, cosmic rays could keep life alive under the ice, NASA is building fuel depots in space, and a radio telescope is going to the far side of the Moon. On Space Bites+, how brines could form on the surface of Mars, providing a habitat for life.

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