Construction Begins on the World’s Largest Steerable Radio Telescope
Radio astronomy has been in flux lately. With the permanent loss of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, a new…
How Does NASA Plan to Keep Samples From Mars Safe From Contamination (and Contaminating) Earth?
NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission is inching closer and closer. The overall mission architecture just hit a new milestone when…
NASA's Dragonfly Helicopter Will be Exploring This Region of Titan
A research team led by Cornell recently created a map of the Dragonfly's future landing site (the Selk Crater) using…
SpaceX To Fix Hubble, DART Success, Exciting Enceladus Discoveries
Humanity moved an asteroid on purpose for the first time in history. Juno flies past Jupiter's moon Europa. A possible…
Astronomers Simulate the Cat’s Eye Nebula in 3D
In a recent study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, an international team of researchers led by…
Will Titan finally answer, ‘Are we alone?’
We recently examined how and why Jupiter’s moon, Europa, could answer the longstanding question: Are we alone? While this small…
China’s Zhurong Rover Looks Deep Underground and Sees Layers From Multiple Floods on Mars
Mars exploration has been ongoing for decades at this point, and some regions of the planet have become more interesting…
Companies Will Have Five Years to Dispose of Their Dead Satellites
Kessler syndrome seems to be a growing fear for those interested in space exploration. The condition where numerous non-functional pieces…
Mars Rocks Have the Right raw Ingredients to 3D Print Everything From Tools to Rocket Parts
3D printing will be an absolutely critical technology as space exploration starts to take off. Initially, it will be impossible…
Two “Super Mercury” Exoplanets Found in a Single System
There's a star system out there with three super-Earth planets and two super-Mercuries. Super-Earths are fairly familiar types of exoplanets,…