Future Space Telescopes Could be Made From Thin Membranes, Unrolled in Space to Enormous Size

Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn’t obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so…

Voyager 1 is Forced to Rely on its Low Power Radio

Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then!…

The Aftermath of a Neutron Star Collision Resembles the Conditions in the Early Universe

Neutron stars are extraordinarily dense objects, the densest in the Universe. They pack a lot of…

Webb Confirms a Longstanding Galaxy Model

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight…

New View of Venus Reveals Previously Hidden Impact Craters

Think of the Moon and most people will imagine a barren world pockmarked with craters. The…

Multimode Propulsion Could Revolutionize How We Launch Things to Space

In a few years, as part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the “first woman…

China Trains Next Batch of Taikonauts

China has a fabulously rich history when it comes to space travel and was among the…

NASA Focusses in on Artemis III Landing Sites.

It was 1969 that humans first set foot on the Moon. Back then, the Apollo mission…

The Connection Between Black Holes and Dark Energy is Getting Stronger

The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe has often been attributed to the force…

Will Advanced Civilizations Build Habitable Planets or Dyson Spheres

If there are alien civilizations in the Universe, some of them could be super advanced. So…