Search for Life on Mars Could Level-Up with MARSE Mission Concept

A recent study presented at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) discusses the Mars…

The Milky Way’s Smallest, Faintest Satellite Galaxy Found

The Milky Way has many satellite galaxies, most notably the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. They’re…

Thermal Modeling of a Pulsed Plasma Rocket Shows It Should Be Possible To Create One

We’ve reported on a technology called pulsed plasma rockets (PPRs) here at UT a few times.…

The ESA’s Mars Rover Gets a New Map

Rosalind Franklin, the ESA’s Mars rover, is scheduled to launch no sooner than 2028. Its destination…

Civilizations Could Time Their Communications Based on the Movement of a Single Star

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has been ongoing for decades at this point. Despite that, we…

Astronomers Catch a Supernova Explode Almost in Realtime

Catching a supernova in action is tricky business. There is no way to predict them, and…

Neutron Stars are Jetting Material Away at 40% the Speed of Light

It’s a well known fact that black holes absorb anything that falls into them. Often before…

Lunar Night Permanently Ends the Odysseus Mission

On February 15th, Intuitive Machines (IM) launched its first Nova-C class spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center…

Someone Just Found SOHO’s 5,000th Comet

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was designed to examine the Sun, but as a side…

Webb Joins the Hunt for Protoplanets

We can’t understand what we can’t clearly see. That fact plagues scientists who study how planets…