Andy Tomaswick
Webb Relieves the Hubble Tension
Sometimes, when scientists measure things differently, they get different results. Whenever that happens with something as crucial to humanity's long-term…
Project Helianthus – a Solar Sail Driven Geomagnetic Storm Tracker
Solar storms captured the imagination of much of the American public earlier this year when auroras were visible well south…
Researchers Developed a Test Bed For Separating Valuable Material on the Moon
Many times, it's better to flesh out technologies fully on Earth's surface before they're used in space. That is doubly…
A Hopper Could Explore Over 150km of Triton’s Surface In Two Years
Neptune's largest moon, Triton, is one of the most biologically interesting places in the solar system. Despite being hard to…
Are Andromeda and the Milky Way Doomed to Collide? Maybe Not
Scientists discovered the Andromeda galaxy, known as M31, hundreds of years ago, and around a century ago, we realized that…
Astronomers Use Artificial Intelligence To Find Elusive Stars “Gobbling Up” Planets
We recently reported on how the mountains of data produced by astronomical instruments are "perfect for AI." We've also started…
A Tower On The Moon Could Provide Astronauts With Light, Power, and Guidance
Technologies for enabling NASA's Artemis mission are coming thick and fast, as plenty of problems must be solved before a…
A Unique Combination of Antennas Could Revolutionize Remote Sensing
Bigger antennas are better, at least according to researchers interested in geospatial monitoring. That's because higher resolution in monitoring applications…
How to SUPPPPRESS Light From a Star That Is Ten Billion Times Brighter Than Its Habitable Exoplanet
Searching for Earth 2.0 has been an obsession of almost all exoplanet hunters since the discipline's dawn a few decades…
The Properties of 1.2 Million Solar System Objects Are Now Contained In A Machine-Readable Database
Academic research on solar system objects has increased dramatically over the last twenty years. However, information on most of the…