To Fight Climate Change, We Could Block the Sun. A Lightweight Solar Sail Could Make it Feasible
Can we build an enormous umbrella to dim the Sun? Such a feat would be a megaproject on a scale…
Perseverance’s Latest Sample is Just Crumbled Regolith. When Scientists get Their Hands on it, we’ll Learn so Much About how to Live on Mars
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) part of Perseverance's mission is picking up - literally. For the past few months, the…
Iconic Earthrise By Artemis 1, Rule-Breaking GRB, SpaceX Launches Starshield
Construction Begins on the Square Kilometer Array. Artemis I’s iconic crescent Earthrise picture. A gamma-ray burst that breaks all the…
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…