JWST Turns its Gaze on the Farthest Known Star: Earendel
In March 2022, astronomers announced the discovery of the farthest known star via an image taken by the Hubble Space…
We Could Get Material On The Moon By Shocking It With Lightning
Lately, plenty of ideas have been floating around for methods to mine the Moon. That is undoubtedly partly due to…
Virgin Galactic Flies Its First Privately Funded Space Tourists
Virgin Galactic sent its first privately funded adventurers — and its first space sweepstakes winners — past the 50-mile space…
Astronomers Search for Dark Matter Annihilation at the Center of the Earth
If dark matter is made of heavy particles, they could become captured by the gravitational field of massive objects like…
Interpreting Dune Patterns: Insights from Earth and Mars
A recent study published in the journal Geology attempts to interpret the patterns of dunes, which are sand mounds frequently…
Penn State SETI Symposium Opens with Commemoration of Dr. Frank Drake
This year's Penn State SETI Summit kicked off with a a lecture on how history will remember SETI pioneer Frank…
We Could SCATTER CubeSats Around Uranus To Track How It Changes
Exploration missions to the outer solar system are still sorely lacking, even though they were highly prioritized in the Planetary…
Could This Supermassive Black Hole Only Have Formed by Direct Collapse?
One of the outstanding mysteries in astronomy is how supermassive black holes gained so much mass so early in the…
Why 2023 is a Great Year for the Perseid Meteors
Don’t miss one of the best meteor displays of 2023, as the Perseids peak this coming weekend.
NASA's Mars Helicopter Had an Unscheduled Landing, But Flew Again
The Ingenuity helicopter continues to explore the landscape around Jezero Crater on Mars, now more than 800 days into its…