Evan Gough
The Most Dangerous Part of a Space Mission is Fire
Astronauts face multiple risks during space flight, such as microgravity and radiation exposure. Microgravity can decrease bone density, and radiation…
Experimental Radar Technique Reveals the Composition of Titan’s Seas
The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn generated so much data that giving it a definitive value is impossible. It's sufficient to…
Astronauts Struggle To Eat Their Space Food and Scientists Want to Know Why
Astronauts sometimes struggle to consume enough nutritious food on the ISS because it tastes bland. But astronaut food is of…
Black Holes Dominate Large Regions of Space, But They’re Mysterious
In the beginning, the Universe was all primordial gas. Somehow, some of it was swept up into supermassive black holes…
Webb Sees a Star in the Midst of Formation
Wherever the JWST looks in space, matter and energy are interacting in spectacular displays. The Webb reveals more detail in…
A New View of Olympus Mons
After 100,000 orbits and almost 23 years on Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has seen a lot. The spacecraft was…
Basketball-Sized Meteorites Strike the Surface of Mars Every Day
NASA's InSight Mars Lander faced some challenges during its time on the red planet's surface. Its mole instrument struggled to…
Alpha Centauri Could Have a Super Jupiter in Orbit
The three-body problem is one of Nature's thorniest problems. The gravitational interactions and resulting movements of three bodies are notoriously…
Asteroid Samples Were Once Part of a Wetter World
Nine months have passed since NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned its samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth. The samples are some of…
Volcanic Plumes Rise Above Lava Lakes on Io in this Juno Image
As the most volcanic object in the Solar System, Jupiter's moon Io attracts a lot of attention. NASA's Juno spacecraft…