Space Exploration
Perseverance Begins the Next Phase of its Mission, Studying an Ancient River Bed on Mars
On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance (Percy) Rover successfully landed in the dried-up lakebed known as Jezero Crater on Mars,…
Dozens of Robots Competed to Race Through Underground Caves
America’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is well known for its challenges. It held a series of autonomous driving…
Plasma Thruster Could Dramatically Cut Down Flight Times to the Outer Solar System
I just finished the most recent season of The Expanse - my current favourite Sci-Fi series. Unlike most of my…
Health Issues From Spaceflight Might Originate in the Mitochondria
An analysis of all the data we have on the effects of microgravity has indicated that the problem could have…
NASA’s Janus Mission is Going to Visit Two Binary Asteroids
Gravity is good for a lot of things. It brings objects closer together. Occasionally they crash into each other. But…
A New Kind of Rocket that’s Lightweight and Easier to Construct: a Rotating Detonating Engine. Unfortunately, it’s Also Completely Unpredictable
A new type of engine - known as the rotating detonation engine - could revolutionize rocketry and make space exploration…
Aquatic Rover Drives on the Underside of the Ice in Antarctica
Not all rovers are designed to roam around on the surface of other worlds like Mars. One rover, at least,…
NASA’s New Lunar Spacesuit is Going to be a Lot More Comfortable for Astronauts
NASA is developing new spacesuits for their Artemis program. The new suits will give the astronauts greater mobility, will be…
NASA Tests Water Powered Spacecraft in Orbit
Picture two tissue box-sized spacecraft orbiting Earth. Then picture them communicating, and using a water-powered thruster to approach each other.…
The ESA’s SpaceBok Robot Will Hop Its Way Around Low-Gravity Worlds
The ESA is helping a group of students from Zurich test and develop their hopping exploration robot. Called SpaceBok, the…