[NEWS] Five science links: Ukraine in space, Archean Earth, oceans of Mars, looking for life, Icarus

[rfmcdonald]

• Ukraine is interested in funding spaceport developments in Australia. Transitions Online reports.


• National Geographic notes evidence that the influx of oxygen into the Archean atmosphere more than two billion years ago was--geologically, at least--quite sudden.


• Universe Today notes that volcanism on early Mars may have helped fill that planet's primordial oceans.


• National Geographic takes a look at the various strategies hypothetical extraterrestrial civilizations could adopt to find life--even us--from a great distance.


• The discovery of Icarus, a discrete blue supergiant star detected nine billion light-years away, is a triumph of modern astronomy. VICE reports.

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[dewline]

Ukrainian-Australian joint ventures?

Shades of 2300 AD!