The SETI Ellipse Tells Us Where to Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Of all the questions that remain unanswered, the question of life in the Universe is surely…

One of NASA’s Radio Dishes Can Now Track Space Lasers Too

Beamed communication in space is almost exclusively tracked by one network – NASA’s Deep Space Network…

Water Found on the Surface of an Asteroid

Our Solar System is a collection of objects from planets and moons to comets and asteroids.…

Could We Live Without Kilonovae?

It’s a classic statement shared at many public outreach events…’we are made of stardust’. It is…

The Vera Rubin’s Keen Eye On Our Solar System Will Inspire Future Missions

When the interstellar object (ISO) Oumuamua appeared in our Solar System in 2017, it generated a…

What Happened to All Those Boulders Blasted into Space by DART?

It was a $325 million dollar project that was intentionally smashed to smithereens in the interest…

Measuring Distances in the Universe With Fast Radio Bursts

Now and then there is a bright radio flash somewhere in the sky. It can last…

CERN Wants to Build an Enormous New Atom Smasher: the Future Circular Collider

One of my favourite science and engineering facts is that an underground river was frozen to…

Asteroid 2024 CY1 flew past Earth at 0.31 LD

A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2024 CY1 flew past Earth at 07:24 UTC on February 12, 2024,…

NASA Gives Dreamchaser the Shakedown

It’s been a while since NASA has had a spaceplane on the launchpad but this now…