Nooo! Canadarm2 Hit by a Piece of Space Debris
The International Space Station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2, was struck by a piece of space debris. But luckily, it appears to…
Long-Range Photo of Ingenuity Taken by Perseverance’s SuperCam Instrument
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is a stunning achievement of engineering, design, and, well, ingenuity. The dual-rotor craft can be seen taking…
JAXA Using Water Bottle Technology for Sample-Return Missions From the ISS
JAXA and the Tiger Corporation have come together to develop next-generation cooling containers that will allow for regular sample-returns from…
There Might be Volcanoes at the Bottom of Europa’s sub-ice Oceans
In about three years, NASA plans to launch a robotic orbiter that will study Jupiter's mysterious moon Europa. It's called…
Zhurong is Rolling on Mars
China's Zhurong rover has departed from its lander and commenced science operations, and has the pictures to prove it!
Is the Hubble constant not…Constant?
Cosmologists have been struggling to understand an apparent tension in their measurements of the present-day expansion rate of the universe,…
Teeny Tiny CubeSats Could Have Deployable Mirrors Like James Webb
Tiny CubeSats could give us a detailed view of Earth in real time, thanks to folding adjustable mirrors.
Dark Energy Survey is out. 29 Papers Covering 226 Million Galaxies Across 7 Billion Light-Years of Space
Cosmology is now stranger to large scale surveys. The discipline prides itself on data collection, and when the data it…
Self-Driving Lunar Rovers for Astronaut Road Trips on the Moon
What happens when you cross one of the world’s largest defense contractors with one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers? …
Exoplanet Surveys are Leaning Towards the Possibility That our Solar System is… Normal
One of the unspoken caveats of most exoplanet discovery missions is that they only operate for a few years. Such…