Missions
ESA Has a Difficult Choice: Study Mars, Earth's Magnetosphere, or Gamma-Ray Bursts
The ESA Science Programme has narrowed down the possibilities for its next M-class mission to three concepts.
ESA’s Hera Mission is Bringing Two Cubesats Along. They’ll Be Landing on Dimorphos
In about one year from now, the European Space Agency will launch its Hera mission. Its destination is the asteroid…
Mars Still Has Liquid Rock Near its Core
Why doesn’t Mars have a magnetic field? If it did, the planet would be protected from cosmic radiation and charged…
Building Roads Out of Moon Dust
Astronauts will face a host of obstacles when they visit the Moon again. There's powerful radiation, wild temperature swings, and…
NASA's Psyche Mission is off to Asteroid Psyche
NASA's Psyche mission just launched on a six year journey to explore a metal world in the Asteroid Belt.
A Huge New Gaia Data Release: More Stars, Gravitational Lenses and Asteroids
The ESA's Gaia mission is releasing a new tranche of astronomical data. The mission has released three regular, massive hauls…
This Moon Rover Wheel Could be 3D Printed on the Moon
When you think about sending missions to the Moon, every single gram counts on launch day. Therefore, it makes sense…
Magnetic Fusion Plasma Engines Could Carry us Across the Solar System and Into Interstellar Space
In a recent paper, Leiden Professor Florian Neukart describes a Magnetic Fusion Plasma Drive (MFPD) that could revolutionize space exploration.
Day Has Returned, but India’s Lander and Rover have Failed to Wake Up
It looks like India's Chandrayaan-3 succumbed to the cold, and its mission is over. The frigid lunar night lasted about…
Chinese Astronauts May Build a Base Inside a Lunar Lava Tube
Caves were some of humanity's first shelters. Who knows what our distant ancestors were thinking as they sought refuge there,…