Rare Element Could Point the Way to Past Life on Mars
A new study by an international team of scientists indicates how future missions to Mars should look for a rare…
Hubble Spots Unique Object in the Main Asteroid Belt
An international team of scientists recently used the Hubble space telescope to spot a unique binary asteroid that behaves like…
Where Do We Go Next? Building the Deep Space Gateway
NASA is working on developing a space station in a cis-lunar orbit that will serve as the jumping off point…
Proposed Hyperloop Route Between Toronto and Montreal!
The Hyperloop One Global Challenge recently wrapped up, and one of the winners was a team who proposed building a…
Scientists Urge Europe to Stick With “Armageddon”-style Asteroid Mission
At the European Planetary Science Conference in Riga this week, scientists urged Europe to remain committed to the AIDA asteroid…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampler Slingshots Around Earth Friday, Sept. 22 – Catch It If You Can!
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Barely a year after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic asteroid sampler launched on a trailblazing mission to…
New Study Says a Fast Radio Burst Happens Every Second in the Universe
A new study by a team of researchers from the CfA argues that a Fast Radio Burst happens with every…
More Surface Ice on Mercury than Previously Thought, says New Study
A new study from Brown University reveals that there may be a lot more surface ice on Mercury than previously…
Weekly Space Hangout -Sept 20, 2017: ANU Citizen Science Project for Supernovae
Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dr. Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier…
300 Asteroids to be Explored by a Fleet of Nanosatellites
Researchers are proposing a fleet of tiny electric sail powered satellites to explore over 300 separate objects in the asteroid…