This is What Happens to Spacecraft When They Re-Enter the Earth’s Atmosphere
When one of the Russian Progress resupply ships undocks from the International Space Station, timing is everything. The Progress needs…
The Surprising Discovery of Ceramic Chips Inside Meteorites Means There Were Wild Temperature Variations In the Early Solar System
Meteorites are excellent windows into early solar system formation. Many were formed in the those early days, and unlike rocks…
A Combined Map of Almost 15,000 Dust Storms on Mars
Data in the world of astronomy is spread out in so many different places. There are archives for instruments on…
A Cluster of Black Holes Found Inside a Globular Cluster of Stars
Globular clusters can be home to lots of stellar-mass black holes, rather than a single intermediate mass black hole.
NASA has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy
According to a recent statement, NASA has contracted SpaceX to launch the core elements of the Gateway to the Moon…
Lunar Spacecraft Gets an Upgrade to Capture New Perspectives of the Moon
Eleven years into its mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is starting to show its age, but a recent software…
How Old is the Ice at Mars’ North Pole?
Using data from the MRO's HiRISE camera, a team of researchers from UC Boulder have provided a starting point for…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter ‘Hides’ Behind the Sun
A deep-space mission is about to pull a ‘vanishing act,’ through mid-February, as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (affectionately…
The Crab Nebula Seen in 3-Dimensions
The Crab Nebula is arguably one of the most famous objects in the night sky. It was delineated as M1…
Quantum Theory Proposes That Cause and Effect Can Go In Loops
Causality is one of those difficult scientific topics that can easily stray into the realm of philosophy. Science’s relationship with…