Shadows on the Moon Could be Hiding Water, Even in the Daytime
Shadows have been known throughout history to be excellent hiding places. They may even be hiding unexpected things off the…
Astronomers Find a Huge Planet Orbiting its Star at 6,000 Times the Earth-Sun Distance
Tracking exoplanets is hard - especially when that exoplanet is so far away from its parent star that the normally…
Scientists Figure out how the Asteroid Belt Attacked the Dinosaurs
How do you track an asteroid that hit the Earth over 60 million years ago? By using a combination of…
NASA is Going Ahead With a Hopping Lander to Explore the Lunar Surface
Methods of movement for robotic explorers of other worlds have been as varied as the worlds themselves. Some missions have…
Two Bizarre red Asteroids Somehow Migrated From the Kuiper Belt all the way to the Main Asteroid Belt
If asked to pick what color asteroids in the asteroid belt would be, red is likely not one that would…
NASA Chooses Falcon Heavy Over SLS to Launch Europa Clipper, Saving About $2 Billion
The bureaucracy of government control is slowly fading away in space exploration, at least in the US. A series of…
A Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From us, but its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in our Direction
Using the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes, an international team of scientists were able to see light coming from behind…
Lightweight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Fuel Tanks Pass a Critical Test, and Could Knock a lot of Weight off a Rocket’s dry Mass
Material science is still the unsung hero of space exploration. Rockets are flashier, and control systems more precise, but they…
InSight has Mapped out the Interior of Mars, Revealing the Sizes of its Crust, Mantle, and Core
In a series of newly-published papers, NASA scientists have shown how InSight's seismic data allowed them to measure the structure…
Bad News. Those Underground Lakes on Mars? They’re Probably Just Frozen Clay
If you were planning an ice-fishing trip to the Martian south pole and its sub-surface lakes observed by radar in…