For a small, lumpy chunk of rock that barely reflects any light, Mars’ Moon Phobos draws…
Category: News
Genaero
NASA has a New Database to Predict Meteoroid Hazards for Spaceflight
There are plenty of problems that spacecraft designers have to consider. Getting smacked in the sensitive…
Evidence of Dark Matter Interacting With Itself in El Gordo Merger
The Standard Model of particle physics does a good job of explaining the interactions between matter’s…
Two Seismometers are Going to the Moon to Measure Moonquakes
Our Moon is shrinking and has been doing so since just after its formation ~4.5 billion…
Astronomers Have a New Way to Bypass Earth’s Atmosphere
Radio telescopes have an advantage over optical telescopes, in that radio telescope can be used even…
Hubble Pauses its Science Again
The Hubble Space Telescope has been shut down temporarily after one of its gyroscopes sent faulty…
NASA Wants Heavy Cargo Landers for the Moon
The Artemis Program represents NASA’s effort to return to the Moon. One of the goals of…
Chinese Probe Collects Moon Samples and Heads for Earth
China says its Chang’e-6 spacecraft has gathered up soil and rocks from the far side of…
Highlights from the 10th Achieving Mars Workshop
Back in December, NASA officials, space industry experts, members of the academic community, and science communicators…
Suppressing Starlight: How to Find Other Earths
One underappreciated aspect of the current flood of exoplanet discoveries is the technical marvels that enable…