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NASA Selects Bold Proposal to “Swarm” Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes
Humans have dreamed about traveling to other star systems and setting foot on alien worlds for generations. To put it…
ESA Gives Us a Glimpse of its Future Space Exploration Plans with a Cool New Video
The European Space Agency (ESA) has made incredible contributions to space exploration and space-based science. Last year, the agency launched…
After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist Enrico Fermi asked the…
NASA Tests Out 3D-printed Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine!
Looking to the future, NASA is investigating several technologies that will allow it to accomplish some bold objectives. This includes…
Top Astronomy Events for 2024
2024 features the final total solar eclipse for the CONUS until 2044, and much more.
NASA Tightbeams a Cat Video From 31 Million Kilometers Away
NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has been responsible for maintaining contact with missions venturing beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) since…
Watch 14 Years of Gamma-Ray Observations in This Fascinating NASA Video
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, named in honor of noted physicist Enrico Fermi, has been in operation for almost a…
We Just had the Strongest Solar Flare in the Current Solar Cycle
On December 14th, at 12:02 PM Eastern (09:02 AM Pacific), the Sun unleashed a massive solar flare. According to the…
It Doesn't Take Much to Get a Runaway Greenhouse Effect
During the 1960s, the first robotic explorers began making flybys of Venus, including the Soviet Venera 1 and the Mariner…
A Radio Telescope on the Moon Could Help Us Understand the First 50 Million Years of the Universe
In the coming decade, multiple space agencies and commercial space providers are determined to return astronauts to the Moon and…