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Hubble’s Orbit Has Dropped So Far that Starlink Satellites are Photobombing its Images
Astronomy is poised for another leap. In the next several years, major ground-based telescopes will come online, including the Extremely…
An Earthworm Robot Could Help Us Explore Other Worlds
Evolution is a problem-solver, and one of the problems it solved in many different ways is locomotion. Birds fly. Fish…
Can a Venus Lander Survive Longer Than a Few Minutes?
Sending a lander to Venus presents several huge engineering problems. Granted, we’d get a break from the nail-biting entry, descent…
Are We Entering the Era of Quantum Telescopes?
In a recent study, a team of researchers showed how combining interferometry with quantum principles could lead to quantum telescopes.
Rolls-Royce Reveals a Nuclear Reactor That Could Provide Power on the Moon
Rolls-Royce has released a teaser about the "micro-reactor" they are developing in partnership with the UK Space Agency.
Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape
An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope
It’s Already Hard Enough to Block a Single Star’s Light to See its Planets. But Binary Stars? Yikes
Detecting exoplanets was frontier science not long ago. But now we've found over 5,000 of them, and we expect to…
NASA and DARPA Will be Testing a Nuclear Rocket in Space
NASA and DARPA have teamed up to create a nuclear thermal rocket that could perform an orbital flight test by…
A Novel Propulsion System Would Hurl Hypervelocity Pellets at a Spacecraft to Speed it up
A new proposal for a pellet-beam spacecraft could enable interstellar missions and a Solar Gravitational Lens in a matter of…
Scientists Build a Teeny Tiny Tractor Beam
Tractor beams make intuitive sense. Matter and energy interact with each other in countless ways throughout the Universe. Magnetism and…