NASA Will Rent Future Spacesuits From Longtime Supplier and Newcomer
NASA has struck deals with two commercial teams to provide the spacesuits destined for use when astronauts return to the…
Dark Stars: The First Stars in the Universe Could Have Been Powered by Annihilating Dark Matter
Dark matter doesn’t really do much of anything in the present-day universe. But in the early days of the cosmos…
Compare Sand Dunes Across the Solar System, From Venus to Pluto
A new study explains how bodies as different as Venus, Earth, Mars, Pluto, Titan, and Triton can all have sand…
Could we Detect Dark Matter’s Annihilation Within Globular Clusters?
A team of astronomers studied two nearby globular clusters, 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri, searching for signals produced by annihilating…
Why are Uranus and Neptune Different Colors? Haze
Way back in the late 1980s, the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus and Neptune. During the flybys, we got to…
Hubble Sees Two Spiral Galaxies Together
Two peculiar spiral galaxies are in the latest image release from the Hubble Space Telescope. The two galaxies, collectively known…
ESA's Juice Mission is Fully Integrated and Ready for Testing. Soon it'll fly to Space on a Mission to Jupiter's Moons
Now less than one year until the projected launch date, ESA’s JUICE mission is in the final phases of development.…
Civilizations Don’t Even Need Space Ships to Migrate From Star System to Star System
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a red giant. It'll expand and…
A new Kind of Solar Sail Could let us Explore Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System
Solar sailing technology has been a dream of many for decades. The simple elegance of sailing on the light waves…
ESA is Developing Microbe-Killing Coatings to Make Spaceflight Healthier
Humans aren’t the only living things in place onboard the ISS. Bacteria, which has found a way to integrate itself…