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There's No Simple Origin Story for Long Gamma Ray Bursts

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful phenomena in the Universe. First d...

Methane is the Key to Understanding Titan

Saturn's moon Titan is the only other body in the Solar System with weather simi...

Using Shape Memory Alloys To Navigate Underground Spaces

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) is becoming increasingly common in space exploration ap...

Why Don't Titan's Seas Have Deltas?

Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, looks more Earth-like on its surface than any...

Martian Resource Potential and Challenges for Future Hu...

What steps can be taken to enhance in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) for futur...

Microbes are Evolving that Thrive in Spacecraft Cleanrooms

Spacecraft are expensive and intricately engineered machines designed to perform...

A CubeSat to Capture a Supernova's UV Spectrum

Technology Readiness Levels (or TRL levels, because repeating the last word of i...

Could Dark Matter Be Evolving Over Time, and Not Dark E...

For a while now, there has been a problematic mystery at the heart of the standa...

Tracking Down "Annihilation Photons" Could Lead To Uniq...

Tracking the sources of photons is a hobby of many astrophysicists. Some types o...

Using the Solar Gravitational Lens Will Be Extremely Di...

The solar gravitation lens (SGL) has much potential as a telescope. This point i...

African Space Agency takes flight

On 20 April, 2025, the African Space Agency (AfSA) was formally launched at an i...

A Fast-Moving Pulsar Fractures the Milky Way's Galactic...

The center of the Milky Way is a busy place, tightly packed with stars and domin...

New Horizons Helps Map the Hot Clouds of Interstellar G...

New Horizons' primary mission is complete. It's already completed its pass throu...

It's Either the Milky Way's Farthest Known Star Cluster...

How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That's easy, right...

The Most Common Type of Exoplanet Was Difficult To Obse...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't s...

New Research Traces Heavy Elements to Collapsing Stars

A team of researchers led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory examined the pos...

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