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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…