Andy Tomaswick
Thermal Modeling of a Pulsed Plasma Rocket Shows It Should Be Possible To Create One
We've reported on a technology called pulsed plasma rockets (PPRs) here at UT a few times. Several research groups have…
Civilizations Could Time Their Communications Based on the Movement of a Single Star
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has been ongoing for decades at this point. Despite that, we have yet to find…
This Black Hole is a Total Underachiever
Anyone can be an underachiever, even if you're an astronomical singularity weighing over four billion times the mass of the…
Astronomers Only Knew of a Single Binary Cepheid System. Now They Just Found Nine More
Measuring the distance to far away objects in space can be tricky. We don't even know the precise distance to…
One Impact on Mars Produced More than Two Billion Secondary Craters
There are plenty of craters on Mars, especially when compared to Earth. That is primarily thanks to the lack of…
NASA is Working on Zero-Boil Off Tanks for Space Exploration
No matter what mode of transportation you take for a long trip, at some point, you'll have to refuel. For…
The Cosmic Neutrino Background Would Tell Us Plenty About the Universe
Readers of Universe Today are probably already familiar with the concept of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Its serendipitous discovery…
How Long Will Advanced Civilizations Try to Communicate With Us?
Technosignature research is heating up, with plenty of papers speculating on the nature, and sometimes the longevity, of signals created…
Drones Could Help Map the Lunar Surface with Extreme Precision
Exploring the Moon has become increasingly more of a focal point lately, especially with a series of landers recently launched…
Mars Had its Own Version of Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics is not something most people would associate with Mars. In fact, the planet's dead core is one of…