Astronomy
Building Concrete on Mars From Local Materials
Imagine you've just gotten to Mars as part of the first contingent of settlers. Your first challenge: build a long-term…
Could Planets Orbiting Two Stars Have Moons?
Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative…
New Research may Explain how Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe Grew so Fast
Not long ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered into Cosmic Dawn, the cosmological period when the first galaxies…
Could the ESA’s PLATO Mission Find Earth 2.0?
Currently, 5,788 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,326 star systems, while thousands more candidates await confirmation. So far, the vast…
Hubble Gets its Best Look At the First Quasar
The term quasar comes from quasi-stellar objects, a name that reflected our uncertainty about their nature. The first quasars were…
Our Strategy to Catch the 2024 Geminid Meteors
Don’t let the bright Moon deter you from seeing the one of the best meteor showers of the year. Update:…
Space Telescopes Could See a Second Life With a Servicing Mission
Telescopes in space have a huge advantage over those on the ground: they can see the universe more clearly. The…
MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept
For the past thirty years, NASA's Great Observatories - the Hubble, Spitzer, Compton, and Chandra space telescopes - have revealed…
Here’s How Interstellar Objects and Rogue Planets Can be Trapped in the Solar System
When Oumuamua traversed our Solar System in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then…
Astronauts on Long Missions Will Need Personal AI Assistants
How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronauts on long-term space missions? This is what a recent study presented at the…