Space exploration carries with it many challengs and one of them is eating, or more accurately the provision of food.…
Neutron stars are the incredibly dense remnants from massive star supernovae. Although they're pulled into dense spheres by their intense…
Rocket launches seem to have become a bit mundane for many these days yet the odd launch captures peoples imagination.…
Globular clusters (GCs) are spherical groups of stars held together by mutual gravity. Large ones can have millions of stars,…
In the search for life, astrobiologists have proposed that various chemicals, like methane, could be potential biosignatures. But a new…
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has a high-resolution spectrograph called  ESPRESSO, designed specifically to detecting and characterize…
Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, features a surprisingly strong magnetic field for its size. Tidal effects from Jupiter continually stretch and…
Some years ago I rememeber running the SETI at Home screensaver and would watch it for hours to see if…
When NASA decided to send the little Ingenuity rotorcraft to Mars on the belly of the Perseverance rover, they weren't…
NASA's Juno spacecraft has been getting closer and closer to Jupiter's volcanic moon Io with each recent orbit. Juno is…