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…
Scientists Recreate Mars Spiders in the Lab
In 2003, strange features on Mars's surface got scientists' "spidey senses" tingling when they saw them. That's when unusual "anareiform…
Polaris Dawn is Away, Sending Another Crew Into Orbit to Perform the First Private Spacewalk
We’ve officially entered a new era of private spaceflight. Yesterday, the crew of Polaris Dawn, a privately funded mission managed…