We’ve reported on a technology called pulsed plasma rockets (PPRs) here at UT a few times.…
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The ESA’s Mars Rover Gets a New Map
Rosalind Franklin, the ESA’s Mars rover, is scheduled to launch no sooner than 2028. Its destination…
Civilizations Could Time Their Communications Based on the Movement of a Single Star
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence has been ongoing for decades at this point. Despite that, we…
Astronomers Catch a Supernova Explode Almost in Realtime
Catching a supernova in action is tricky business. There is no way to predict them, and…
Neutron Stars are Jetting Material Away at 40% the Speed of Light
It’s a well known fact that black holes absorb anything that falls into them. Often before…
Lunar Night Permanently Ends the Odysseus Mission
On February 15th, Intuitive Machines (IM) launched its first Nova-C class spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center…
Someone Just Found SOHO’s 5,000th Comet
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was designed to examine the Sun, but as a side…
Webb Joins the Hunt for Protoplanets
We can’t understand what we can’t clearly see. That fact plagues scientists who study how planets…
Hubble Sees a Star About to Ignite
We know how stars form. Clouds of interstellar gas and dust gravitationally collapse to form a…
This Supernova Lit Up the Sky in 1181. Here’s What it Looks Like Now
Historical astronomical records from China and Japan recorded a supernova explosion in the year 1181. It…