LOOKING GLASS: Exploring Titan’s Icy Hydrocarbon Cycle

Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan have something important in…

Perseverance is Trying Out Spacesuit Materials on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance Rover is an ambitious mission. In addition to its day-to-day exploration, the rover carried…

Students Designed a Mission to Venus on the Cheap

By Andy Tomaswick April 2, 2025 Sometimes, the best way to learn how to do something…

Ultralight Dark Matter Could Explain Early Black Hole Formation

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not…

Spaceflight Weakens Our Weight-Bearing Bones the Most

Human beings evolved on Earth under the 1G pull of gravity. Travelling out into space has…

Travellers to Mars Need to Avoid the Dust

NASA and China plan to send astronauts and taikonauts to Mars in the coming decades. As…

Venus Could Be Much More Volcanically Active Than We Thought

Even though Jupiter’s moon Io is considered the most volcanically active world in the Solar System,…

Black Hole Found Consuming its Own History

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but…

Social Robots Can Improve Astronauts’ Mental Health

By Andy Tomaswick April 1, 2025 Many health problems are faced by astronauts who spend significant…

Sampling the Plumes of Jupiter’s Volcano Moon, Io

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc March 31, 2025 What can a sample return mission from Jupiter’s volcanic…