We Could Simulate Living in Lunar Lava Tubes in Caves on Earth
Simulation is key to space exploration. Scientists and engineers test as many scenarios as possible before subjecting their projects to…
NASA Tests a Solar Sail Segment of its Enormous Solar Cruiser Mission
A team led by NASA Marshall was selected to build a technology demonstrator called the Solar Cruiser to mature solar…
If Dark Matter is Made of Axions, This Could be the Detector That Finds Them
As we've noted in plenty of other articles, science also moves forward by constraints. Understanding the limits of a physical…
This Hellish Planet Orbits its Star Every 18 Hours. How Did it Get There?
Astronomers discovered 55 Cancri e in 2004. That was five years before NASA's Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft was launched, and exoplanet…
A new 3D map of the Milky Way Uses close to 66,000 Stars and Reveals New Details About the Shape of our Galaxy
A new study by a team of Polish astronomers has revealed details about the shape of the Milky Way's center…
Most Exoplanets Suffer Worse Space Weather Than We Do
We have it relatively easy on the Earth. Our Sun is relatively calm. The space weather environment in the solar…
Comets Leave Dusty Trails That Surround the Solar System
Comets are messy things. They scatter bits of dust as they travel through the solar system. If Earth happens to…
Want to Learn More About Dark Matter? Send an Atomic Clock Close to the Sun
If dark matter exists in our solar system, atomic clock spacecraft might reveal its presence.
Japanese Billionaire Reveals His Round-the-Moon Crew
Four years after announcing that he'd lead an around-the-moon mission aboard SpaceX's Starship spacecraft, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has named…
Astronomers Have Found Two Temperate Super-Earths Orbiting a Nearby Red Dwarf
A team of astronomers has found two Super-Earths orbiting a red dwarf about 114 light-years away. The star, named LP…