Engineers Design a Robot That Can Stick To, Crawl Along, and Sail Around Rubble Pile Asteroids
Asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are spherical, though many have a feature that can make them difficult…
Venus Needed Asteroid Impacts to Get its Volcanoes Going
Unlike Earth, Venus lacks the plate tectonics that give rise to volcanoes. But the surface of Venus looks far younger…
An Enormous Cosmological Simulation Wraps Up, Recreating Even More of the Universe
There's an old joke among astronomy students about a question on the final exam for a cosmology class. It goes…
A Massive Galaxy With Almost No Dark Matter
Astronomers have found a massive galaxy that contains little to no Dark Matter, something that doesn't fit with current cosmological…
NASA Astronauts Get a New Ride at Kennedy Space Center
In its continued support for the Artemis missions, a three fully-electric, environmentally friendly, and specially designed vehicles were recently delivered…
Record-Breaking Magnetar was There in the Data All Along
The cosmic zoo has strange beasts that astronomers stumble across in the most fascinating ways. Not long ago a team…
Not All Craters are Circular. Sometimes They Look Like This
Impact craters are nature's signature from a more chaotic time in our Solar System's history. A quick glance at the…
China is Working on a New Crew Spacecraft to Carry Up to 7 Passengers
China’s next-generation crew capsule was given an updated timeline this week. According to Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's…
One Side of This White Dwarf is Covered in Hydrogen While the Other Side is Helium.
Here's a new one. Astronomers have found a white dwarf star - the dead remnant from a main sequence star…
Carbon-Based Molecules Seen Just a Billion Years After the Big Bang
The more astronomers look at the early Universe, the more discoveries they make. Some of those finds change what they…