While NASA outlined plans to increase the cadence of robotic lunar lander missions at a recent event, it said little about accelerating work on crewed lunar landers. The post ‘Shots…
For decades, astronomers thought they knew that pulsars broadcast their signatight beams of radio waves fired from near the surface, close to the magnetic poles. A new study of nearly…
The Sun doesn’t just pump out light and heat, it blasts a continuous stream of charged particles across the Solar System, and that solar wind is far more complex than…
Finding another Earth is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time and the biggest obstacle isn’t the distance, it’s the glare. An Earth like planet orbiting a Sun…
Twelve million light years away, a galaxy is throwing a tantrum on a cosmic scale. M82, the Cigar Galaxy is forming stars at ten times the rate of our own…
Asteroids don’t get the love they deserve. They don’t get “cool points” because they’re not a planet or a potential life-harboring moon. They’re “just a bunch of rocks”. But asteroids…
Starfish Space has changed plans for a docking demonstration mission after its original partner backed out. The post Starfish Space finds a new partner for docking demonstration mission appeared first…
Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS…
A new atlas of 45 potentially habitable planets makes us think of the new film “Project Hail Mary,” based on the book by Andy Weir.
The Antennae galaxies are witnessed in the process of merging into a single elliptical galaxy.
