Other Liquids Could Be Forming Minerals on Mars
Most people will think of a dry arid landscape when they think of Mars. When seen from orbit, dry river…
Jared Isaacman is Trump’s Choice for NASA Administrator
As a new President of the United States is elected, the NASA administrator role is usually reviewed. With the election…
NASA Pushes Human Moon Landing Back to 2027
The Artemis moon landings are delayed again due to technical difficulties. This time, the problem is with the Orion spacecraft…
Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature
Sometimes in science you have to step back and take another look at underlying assumptions. Sometimes its necessary when progress…
MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept
For the past thirty years, NASA's Great Observatories - the Hubble, Spitzer, Compton, and Chandra space telescopes - have revealed…
Cosmology is at a Crossroads, But New Instruments are Coming to Help
Thanks to Hubble, JWST, and the Planck mission, we're starting to see cracks in the current ideas in cosmology, expressed…
A 3U CubeSat Could Collect Data During an Asteroid Flyby
One of the great things about CubeSat designs is that they constrain the engineers who design them. Constraints are a…
China Plans to Retrieve Mars Samples by 2031
China's growing presence in space has been undeniable since the turn of the century. Between sending the first "taikonaut" to…
Here’s How Interstellar Objects and Rogue Planets Can be Trapped in the Solar System
When Oumuamua traversed our Solar System in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then…
MeerKAT Confirms the Gravitational Wave Background of the Universe in Record Time
Astronomers are collecting evidence for the gravitational wave background of the Universe, caused by merging supermassive black holes. Now, the…