A Screw-Driven Robot Could Autonomously Mine Rocky Worlds
Navigating the harsh terrain of other rocky worlds has consistently been challenging. The Free Spirit campaign unfortunately failed in its…
How Life Could Live Under the Ice on Mars
Mars has been a fascination to us for centuries. Early observations falsely gave impressions of an intelligent civilisation but early…
NASA’s JPL Lays Off Another 325 People
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab has announced a second round of layoffs for 2024, this time laying off 325 people -…
Lessons From Ancient Earth’s Atmosphere: From Hostile to Hospitable
Will we ever understand how life got started on Earth? We've learned much about Earth's long, multi-billion-year history, but a…
Astronomers Defy the Zone of Avoidance to Find Hundreds of New Galaxies
The Zone of Avoidance is a region of the sky that's obscured by the disk of the Milky Way. The…
An Otherworldly Cloud Over New Zealand
Filmmakers love New Zealand. Its landscapes evoke other worlds, which explains why so much of The Lord of the Rings…
Early Black Holes Fed 40x Faster than Should Be Possible
The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a…
A Spider Stellar Engine Could Move Binary Stars Halfway Across a Galaxy
Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes as…
Scaling Propellant Production on Mars is Hard
Putting humans on Mars has been one of NASA's driving missions for years, but they are still in the early…
Is an ‘Off-Year’ Leonid Outburst in the Cards For November?
There are good reasons to keep an eye on the Leonid meteors this year.