The Roundup - 20 New Rock + Metal Tours Announced This Past WeekThings are starting to pick up just at the warmer weather arrives. This week we've got 20 new rock and metal tours announced, plus a wealth of festival reveals and special performance announcements.Leading the way we've got an amazing pairing of Chicago punk as Rise Against will take out Alkaline Trio for dates this fall....

Venus is increasingly becoming a touch point for our studies of the exoplanets, as missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)and the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) begin to characterize rocky exoplanets around other stars. Understanding the difference between the evolutions of Venus and Earth, which ended up with such different results, is a key to understanding whether we might be looking at an Earth-analogue or a hellish landscape like Venus. A new paper by Rodolfo Garcia of the University of Washington and his colleagues, which is available in pre-print form on arXiv, simulates Venus 4.5 billion year evolution as part of the solar system to try to understand some of those differences.

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The culprit was obvious, but the mechanism took quite some figuring out.

The story begins 250 million years ago with an ancient ocean.

This would be harrowing enough even if your eyes, nose, and mouth weren't all bleeding at the same time.

This nail-biting stunt is harder than it looks (and it looks pretty tough).

The American space agency has just announced some major changes to the lunar plans by the end of the decade and beyond.

The first planned artificial gravity experiment took place in late 1966, but the first human on the Moon beat them to it.