Not Getting Enough Data From Mars? Set Up A Solar System Pony Express

Getting data in from deep space can be difficult. Almost all of our missions that have…

A Protoplanetary Disc Has Been Found… in Another Galaxy!

Astronomers have imaged dozens of protoplanetary discs around Milky Way stars, seeing them at all stages…

A Gamma-ray Burst Disturbed the Earth’s Ionosphere

You’d think that something happening billions of light-years away wouldn’t affect Earth, right? Well, in 2002,…

Should We Send Humans to Venus?

NASA is preparing to send humans back to the Moon with the Artemis missions in the…

Odyssey Gives Us a Cool New View of Mars

Chances are that you’ve seen images of Earth from space, thanks to the astronauts aboard the…

We Should Hit Peak Solar Activity Next Year

You may be familiar with the solar cycle that follows a 22 year process shifting from…

It Doesn’t Take Much to Get Tilted Planets

Chinese and Indian astronomers were the first to measure Earth’s axial tilt accurately, and they did…

There are Myterious Polygons Beneath the Surface of Mars

China’s Zhurong rover was equipped with a ground-penetrating radar system, allowing it to peer beneath Mars’s…

Contact Binary Asteroids are Common, but We’ve Never Seen One Form. So Let’s Make One

Ever want to play a game of cosmic billiards? That’s commonly how the DART mission was…

A Detailed Design for a Space Station at Sun-Earth L2

New ideas in space exploration come from all corners, and, by and large, the community welcomes…