India has Located the Vikram Lander, But it’s Still not Communicating With Home
The ISRO has confirmed the location of their Vikram lander on the lunar surface, but is uncertain if it survived…
Water Discovered in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet in the Habitable zone. It Might Be Rain
Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope have discovered water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in its star's habitable zone.…
Astronauts Try Mixing Concrete in Space
What sounds like a slap-stick comedy shtick is actually solid science. With so much of humanity's space-faring future involving habitats,…
Entrepreneurs and Engineers Come Together to Design a Peaceful Lunar Settlement
The OpenLuna Foundation wants to create a base on the Moon using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to allow the public…
China’s FAST Telescope, the World’s Largest Single Radio Dish Telescope, is Now Fully Operational
After years of construction, China's new radio telescope is in action. The telescope, called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope)…
NASA Tests Autonomous Lunar Landing Technology
In anticipation of many Moon landings to come, NASA is testing an autonomous lunar landing system in the Mojave Desert…
Time and Space: The Strange Reality of Reality
Credit: Unknown artist, Public Domain "Are the dilation calculations correct" the jump coordinator asks you as he approaches your desk.…
Whoa. Lakes on Titan Might be the Craters from Massive Underground Explosions
The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission to Saturn and its moons two years ago when it was sent plunging into…
This is Why Saturn’s Rotation is So Hard to Measure
For a rocky planet, finding the length of a day can be simple. Just pick a reference point and watch…
Gravitational Wave Detectors Might be Able to Detect Dark Matter Particles Colliding With Their Mirrors
According to a new study by a team of Japanese researchers, gravitational wave detectors could be used to confirm the…