Asteroid 16 Psyche Might Not be a Solid Chunk of Metal After All, but Another Rubble Pile
Asteroid 16 Psyche, often sensationally dubbed the 10,000 quadrillion dollar asteroid due to its composition of valuable metals, may not…
It’s Time for Perseverance to get to Work
Given all of the news surrounding the landing and first few months of operation of the Perseverance rover on Mars,…
What’s the Connection Between the Chemistry of a Star and the Formation of its Planets?
Scientists seem to have come up with a new parlor game - how many ways can we potentially detect exoplanets? …
How To Search the Chemical Makeup of Exoplanet Atmospheres for Hints at Their History
Author’s note – this article was written with Dr. Vincent Kofman, a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), working in…
Relativity Space Gets a Huge Investment to Take on SpaceX With Reusable Rockets
Relativity Space, a recent to the commercial space sector, is primed to become one of SpaceX and Blue Origin's toughest…
ESA is Joining NASA With Their own Mission to Venus
It’s an exciting time to be a Venus watcher. Our sister planet, which has been the target of only one…
What Mission Could Detect Oceans at Uranus’ Moons?
Exploration of ocean worlds has become a hot topic of late, primarily due to their role as a potential harbor…
White Dwarf Measured Before it Exploded as a Supernova
Using isotope measurements of a supernova remnant, astronomers have calculated the core density of a white dwarf before it exploded.
The Moons of Rogue Planets Could Have Liquid Surface Water and Thick Atmospheres. They Could be Habitable
A rocky world might not need a star to be habitable. It might just need to orbit a large gas…
Supernova Observed by Astronomers in 1181 Could Have Been a Rare Type 1ax That Leaves Behind a “Zombie Star” Remnant
In 1181 CE, Chinese and Japanese astronomers noticed a "guest star" as bright as Saturn briefly appearing in their night…