Andy Tomaswick
The World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector has Come Online
Individual contributors have become less and less prominent in scientific fields as the discipline itself has matured. Some individuals still…
Astronomers Have Digitized 94,000 Photographic Plates of the Night sky, Going Back 129 Years
Since the early days of the internet, and even computers more generally, there has been a push to collect all…
A Mission to Reach the Solar Gravitational Lens in 30 Years
NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts is famous for supporting outlandish ideas in the astronomy and space exploration fields. Since being…
Researchers Create a Plasma Bubble With Lasers That Could Provide Propulsion or an Artificial Magnetosphere
Lasers are useful for a lot of things. They made CDs work (when they were still a thing). They also…
An Astronaut Controlled a Rover as it Collected Samples on Mt Etna. In the Future, it’ll be on the Moon
Lunar exploration has been gaining more and more traction from various sources recently. Every step forward is another towards potentially…
An Ambitious Plan to Find Earth 2.0
When it comes to astronomy, the more instruments watching the sky, the better. Which is why it has been so…
The Most Threatening Asteroid Just got Downgraded to “Harmless”. No Impact in 2052
It's comforting to know that there are people who are literally paid to watch the night sky to ensure that…
The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars
Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would…
The Rings of Uranus and Neptune Could Help map Their Interiors
Mapping the interior of the ice giants is difficult, to say the least. Not only are they far away and…
Gaia Could Detect Free-Floating Black Holes Passing Near Stars in the Milky Way
The thing with black holes is they're hard to see. Typically we can only detect their presence when we can…