Earth Will Have a Tiny New Mini-Moon for a Few Months
The Moon has inspired poets and artists, musicians and playwrights. The sight of our one and only Moon is familiar…
A Black Hole has Almost Halted Star Formation in its Galaxy
When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Christmas Day in 2021, it faced a whole host of intriguing…
An Ambitious Mission to Neptune Could Study Both the Planet and Triton
Mission concepts to the outer solar system are relatively common, as planetary scientists are increasingly frustrated by our lack of…
Earth’s Shadow Nicks the Moon During This Week’s Partial Lunar Eclipse
The Moon just brushes the umbral shadow of the Earth during Tuesday night's partial lunar eclipse.
Mars has an Amazing Variety of Clouds
Mars has always held a special place in our hearts, likely from hints over the decades of perhaps finding signs…
Can a Greenhouse with a Robotic Arm Feed the Next Lunar Astronauts?
Continuous human habitation of the Moon is the state aim of many major space-faring nations in the coming decades. Reaching…
Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Two of the Biggest Mysteries in Cosmology
Of all the mysteries facing astronomers and cosmologists today, the "Hubble Tension" remains persistent! This term refers to the apparent…
Studying Stars from the Lunar Surface with MoonLITE, Courtesy of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Optical interferometry has been a long-proven science method that involves using several separate telescopes to act as one big telescope,…
New Video Shows How Tiny Spacecraft Will “Swarm” Proxima Centauri
Earlier this year, NASA selected a rather interesting proposal for Phase I development as part of their NASA Innovative Advanced…
A Gravity Map of Mars Uncovers Subsurface Mysteries
A team of scientists presented a new gravity map of Mars at the Europlanet Science Congress 2024. The map shows…