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Research Work Begins on the Habitable Worlds Observatory
NASA are planning on building a telescope to hunt for habitable worlds. The imaginatively named ‘Habitable…
The JWST is Re-Writing Astronomy Textbooks
When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched at the end of 2021, we expected stunning…
Japan’s Lunar Lander Fails to Check-in
On January 19th, 2024, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully landed its Smart Lander for…
How Mars’ Moon Phobos Captures Our Imaginations
For a small, lumpy chunk of rock that barely reflects any light, Mars’ Moon Phobos draws…
NASA has a New Database to Predict Meteoroid Hazards for Spaceflight
There are plenty of problems that spacecraft designers have to consider. Getting smacked in the sensitive…
Evidence of Dark Matter Interacting With Itself in El Gordo Merger
The Standard Model of particle physics does a good job of explaining the interactions between matter’s…
Two Seismometers are Going to the Moon to Measure Moonquakes
Our Moon is shrinking and has been doing so since just after its formation ~4.5 billion…
Astronomers Have a New Way to Bypass Earth’s Atmosphere
Radio telescopes have an advantage over optical telescopes, in that radio telescope can be used even…
Hubble Pauses its Science Again
The Hubble Space Telescope has been shut down temporarily after one of its gyroscopes sent faulty…