SA Space & Physics Vol 3 Issue 5

Space & Physics

Volume 3, Issue 5

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Features

NASA Has Launched the Most Ambitious Mars Rover Ever Built: Here's What Happens Next

NASA Has Launched the Most Ambitious Mars Rover Ever Built: Here's What Happens Next

Perseverance will stow away rocks for eventual delivery to Earth and will listen for Martian sounds for the first time

How Many Aliens Are in the Milky Way? Astronomers Turn to Statistics for Answers

How Many Aliens Are in the Milky Way? Astronomers Turn to Statistics for Answers

The tenets of Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century statistician and minister, underpin the latest estimates of the prevalence of extraterrestrial life

This Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory

A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality

Departments

From the Editor
The Most Confused of the Scientific Branches
News
Mystery over Universe's Expansion Deepens with Fresh Data
Quantum Tunneling Is Not Instantaneous, Physicists Show
Higgs Boson Gives Next-Generation Particle Its Heft
This Photo of the Sun Is the Closest Ever Taken
Scientists Unveil First Ever Pictures of Multiple Planets around a Sunlike Star
Time's Arrow Flies through 500 Years of Classical Music, Physicists Say
Opinion
Could We Force the Universe to Crash?
A Movie of the Evolving Universe Is Potentially Scary
'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,' Better Known as UFOs, Deserve Scientific Investigation