Andy Tomaswick
A Walking Balloon Could One Day Explore Titan – Or Earth’s Sea Floor
Novel ways to move on other celestial bodies always draw the attention of the space exploration community. Here at UT,…
A Hopping Robot Could Explore Europa Using Locally Harvested Water
Various forms of hopping robots have crept into development for us[e in different space exploration missions. We've reported on their…
Exoplanet Could be an Enormous Version of Europa
Certain exoplanets pique scientists' interest more than others. Some of the most interesting are those that lie in the habitable…
Webb Detects the Smell of Rotten Eggs in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
Studying the atmospheres of exoplanets is helpful for several reasons. Sometimes, it helps in understanding their formation. Sometimes, it helps…
NASA Imagines a Catastrophic Asteroid Impact to Study How to Prevent it
The Netflix movie Don't Look Up received plenty of accolades for its scarily realistic portrayal of a professor from Michigan…
A Handy Attachment Could Make Lunar Construction a Breeze
Moving large amounts of regolith is a requirement for any long-term mission to the Moon or Mars. But so far,…
CubeSat Propulsion Technologies are Taking Off
CubeSats are becoming ever more popular, with around 2,400 total launched so far. However, the small size limits their options…
Swarms of Orbiting Sensors Could Map An Asteroid’s Surface
It seems like every month, a new story appears announcing the discovery of thousands of new asteroids. Tracking these small…
A Concentrated Beam of Particles and Photons Could Push Us to Proxima Centauri
Getting to Proxima Centauri b will take a lot of new technologies, but there are increasingly exciting reasons to do…
Could We Replace Ingenuity With a Swarm of Robotic Bees?
Humans finally achieved controlled flight on another planet for the first time just a few years ago. Ingenuity, the helicopter…