Science & Space

A Relative of DNA Can Handle the Venus High Atmosphere

Could some type of life find refuge in Venus' clouds? The detection of phosphine...

How To Aerobrake a Mission To Uranus On the Cheap

Getting a probe to the Icy Giant planets takes some time - a journey to Uranus c...

It's Been a Year Since the Most Powerful Solar Storm in...

One year ago, our star erupted with almost apocalyptic force—unleashing the most...

There's Liquid Water Deep Down on Mars

Mars once flowed with water—then 3 billion years ago, it mysteriously disappeare...

The Plato Mission Just Got Dozens of Cameras Installed

ESA's Plato Mission just hit a major milestone: 24 of 26 high-tech cameras have ...

Perseverance Happened to Land Right Beside a Composite ...

NASA's Perseverance Rover landed in Jezero Crater, an ancient impact crater that...

The Milky Way's Globular Clusters Formed at the Dawn of...

We don't have to rely solely on the JWST to observe the Universe's oldest stars....

A Proposed Mission to Study Venus' Interior

Sometimes it's fun to look back at old missions that never were. There are more ...

Calculating ISRU Propellant Production

Computational Fluid Dynamics. Those words are enough to strike fear into the hea...

Water Ice Found in Another Star System

Just as ice dominates the outer Solar System, blanketing the moons of giant plan...

Venus Might Have Tectonic Activity After All

One of the big differences between Venus and Earth is the lack of plate tectonic...

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...

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