Building Concrete on Mars From Local Materials
Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term…
New Research Indicates the Sun may be More Prone to Flares Than we Thought
This past year saw some significant solar activity. This was especially true during the month of May, which saw more…
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reaches the Top Rim of the Jezero Crater
In 2018, NASA mission planners selected the Jezero Crater as the future landing site of the Perseverance rover. This crater…
Antimatter Propulsion Is Still Far Away, But It Could Change Everything
Getting places in space quickly has been the goal of propulsion research for a long time. Rockets, our most common…
Could Planets Orbiting Two Stars Have Moons?
Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative…
Webb Weighs an Early Twin of the Milky Way
Astronomers have used JWST to weigh a galaxy in the early Universe, finding that it has roughly the same mass…
Do the Fastest Spinning Pulsars Contain Quark Matter?
When a massive star dies as a supernova, it can leave behind a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star. The…
Another Clue About the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Magnetic Turbulence
Space largely seems quite empty! Yet even in the dark voids of the cosmos, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are streaming through…
NASA Thinks it Knows Why Ingenuity Crashed on Mars
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sent its final signals to Earth in the earlier part of the year. Engineers have been studying…
New Research may Explain how Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe Grew so Fast
Not long ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered into Cosmic Dawn, the cosmological period when the first galaxies…