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Measuring How Much Dust Spacecraft Kick Up When they Land
The arrival of spacecraft on alien worlds uses a number of different techniques from giant air…
Did Some of Earth’s Water Come from the Solar Wind?
The source of Earth’s water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion…
Ion Engines Could Take Us to the Solar Gravitational Lens in Less Than 13 Years
Sending an object to another star is still the stuff of science fiction. But some concrete…
The First Triple Star System Found Containing a Black Hole
Neutron stars and black holes are the remnants of dead stars. They typically form as part…
Building Bricks out of Lunar Regolith
It was 1969 that humans first set foot on the Moon. Now, over 50 years later…
Life Can Maintain a Habitable Environment in Hostile Conditions
Everybody knows that for life to thrive on any world, you need water, warmth, and something…
How Bad Can Solar Storms Get? Ask the Trees
One of the many threats facing space travellers and indeed our own planet is that of…
The Webb Discovers a Rich Population of Brown Dwarfs Outside the Milky Way
This stunning image of a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is more than…
NASA is Building Telescopes for the LISA Mission
Some of the most cataclysmic and mysterious events in the cosmos only reveal themselves by their…