After a journey spanning almost two decades, Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser reusable spaceplane, named Tenacity,…
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ESA is Stockpiling Simulated Regolith for the Ultimate Lunar Playground.
Testing interplanetary landers means putting them in an environment as close to their destination as possible.…
Why the Universe Might be a Hologram
A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT correspondence, an intriguing holographic connection between…
Lost In Space? Just Use Relativity
One of the hardest things for many people to conceptualize when talking about how fast something…
Webb Sees a Supernova Go Off in a Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy – for the Second Time
Nature, in its infinite inventiveness, provides natural astronomical lenses that allow us to see objects beyond…
It’s Time for Saturn’s “Spokes” to Return
Astronomers have been observing Saturn with the Hubble Space Telescope and several other spacecraft for decades…
We Just had the Strongest Solar Flare in the Current Solar Cycle
On December 14th, at 12:02 PM Eastern (09:02 AM Pacific), the Sun unleashed a massive solar…
Finally. A Productive Use for Nuclear Weapons: Asteroid Defence
While it has been a favorite disaster movie theme, nuking an incoming asteroid in the real…
It Doesn’t Take Much to Get a Runaway Greenhouse Effect
During the 1960s, the first robotic explorers began making flybys of Venus, including the Soviet Venera…
Enjoy the Holiday-Themed Christmas Tree Cluster
Just in time for the holidays, a new composite image of the Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC…