Scott Alan Johnston
It Turns Out That the World’s Oldest Impact Crater Isn’t an Impact Crater
In early 2012, an international research team surveying parts of southwestern Greenland announced that they had discovered the oldest impact…
China and Russia Will Be Partners in a Lunar Research Station
There are many paths to the Moon, and not all of them go through the Lunar Gateway. This week, the…
How do you get Power into Your Lunar Base? With a Tower of Concrete Several Kilometers High
It sounds like science fiction, but building an enormous tower several kilometers high on the Lunar surface may be the…
NASA is Considering a Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon
The University of Colorado Boulder and Lunar Resources Inc. have just won NASA funding to study the possibility of building…
China’s Super-Heavy Lift Rocket Will Carry 100 Tons to the Moon
China's proposed next-generation rocket reached the final stage of feasibility studies this month. The planned launch vehicle, known as the…
Astronomers Think They’ve Found the Neutron Star Remnant Left Behind from Supernova 1987A
It was the brightest supernova in nearly 400 years when it lit the skies of the southern hemisphere in February…
Our Part of the Galaxy is Packed with Binary Stars
Binary star systems are everywhere. They make up a huge percentage of all known solar systems: from what we can…
NASA’s InSight Will Have Reduced Capability Until a Dust Devil Cleans off its Solar Panels
All eyes are on Mars this week, and, if we're being honest, NASA's InSight lander isn't the star of the…
Lunar Spacecraft Gets an Upgrade to Capture New Perspectives of the Moon
Eleven years into its mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is starting to show its age, but a recent software…
A New Technique to Find Cold Gas Streams That Might Make up the Missing (Normal) Matter in the Universe
Where is all the missing matter? That question has plagued astronomers for decades, because the Universe looks emptier than it…