Andy Tomaswick
Even if you can’t see Auroras, You Can Sometimes Hear Them. Here’s What They Sound Like
Auroras are some of Earth’s most spectacular natural phenomena. Travelers come from far and wide to see the incredible Northern…
A new Kind of Solar Sail Could let us Explore Difficult Places to Reach in the Solar System
Solar sailing technology has been a dream of many for decades. The simple elegance of sailing on the light waves…
ESA is Developing Microbe-Killing Coatings to Make Spaceflight Healthier
Humans aren’t the only living things in place onboard the ISS. Bacteria, which has found a way to integrate itself…
Gaia is an Even More Powerful Planet Hunter Than we Thought
Utilizing tools for purposes they weren’t initially intended for is a strength of the astronomical community. Scrounging through data collected…
Voyager 1 is Sending Home Strange Telemetry Data
Old computer systems have a lot of wacky ways to fail. Computers that are constantly blasted by radiation have even…
Forget About Mars, When Will Humans be Flying to Saturn?
It might be hard to fathom now, but the human exploration of the solar system isn’t going to stop at…
Spinlaunch Hurled a Test Rocket Into the air. See What it Looked Like From the Payload’s Point of View
Can watching a video give you motion sickness? If so, a commercial launch company called SpinLaunch just released a video…
LISA has Passed a key Review Phase, it’s Time to Actually Design the Final Mission
Any project manager will tell you that a phased review project system is the way to go. Whether or not…
Did a 5th Giant Planet Mess up the Orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
The solar system’s current planetary orbits seem stable, but that’s only because the planets have settled into them over billions…
If There are Dyson Spheres Around White Dwarfs, We Should be Able to Detect Them
Searching for Dyson spheres, rings, or swarms remains a preoccupation of many astronomers. If there are any out there, they…