Spacecraft, Landers and Rovers Could be Recycled for Parts on the Moon
Additive manufacturing is slowly becoming more and more useful as the technology improves. One of the places it continues its…
Do Technological Civilizations Depend on Atmospheric Oxygen?
Our modern technological civilization wouldn't have been possible without open-air combustion, which can only happen when atmospheric oxygen levels reach…
NASA Plans to Unleash a Wolf Pack of Rovers Onto the Lunar Surface in 2024
What’s better than one lunar rover? Three lunar rovers! In 2024, NASA plans to send a team of suitcase-sized wheeled…
JWST Sees Multiple Gravitational Lenses in a Massive Cluster: “The Fishhook” and “The Thin One”
We've been getting plenty of spectacular images from the James Webb Space Telescope since it began operations last year. Fraser…
Follow a Simulated Journey of the Destruction of ESA’s Aeolus Mission
On July 28th, the European Space Agency commanded its long-working Aeolus wind profile mission to re-enter Earth's atmosphere. It did…
A Massive Solar Storm was Detected on Earth, Mars, and the Moon
The coronal mass ejection on October 28th, 2021, was measured by missions on Earth, the Moon, and Mars for the…
Yes! A JWST Image of the Ring Nebula
Brace yourselves for great JWST views of the iconic Ring Nebula (M57). An international team of astronomers just released a…
Light Pollution from Skyglow Changes Bird Behavior
In the astronomy community, we typically this of light pollution as an overall negative. Much research points out its negative…
JWST is the Perfect Machine to Resolve the Hubble Tension
Over the last decade, various measurements have disagreed over the rate that the Universe is expanding. Astronomers use Cepheid variables…
China’s Chang’e-7 Will Deploy a Hopper that Jumps into a Crater in Search of Water Ice
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese National Space Administration recently published a study in the journal…