NASA is Testing Shape Memory Alloy Wheels

Rovers on alien worlds need to be built of strong stuff. The dry rugged terrain can…

Astronomers Release a Huge Survey of Exocomet Belts

The study of exoplanets is challenging enough with the immense distances and glare from the host…

Life Would Struggle to Survive Near Wolf 359

Red dwarfs always make me think of the classic British TV science comedy show in the…

Superflares occur on sun-like stars roughly once per century

Sun-like stars experience superflares approximately once every 100 years, according to new research from the Max…

Several Double Planetary Disks Found

If you want to know what the newly forming Solar System looked like, study planetary disks…

Getting To Mars Quickly With Nuclear Electric Propulsion

A spacecraft takes between about seven and nine months to reach Mars. The time depends on…

Rubin Will Find Millions of Supernovae

The discovery of a few thousand type 1a supernovae over the last few decades has helped…

A Fast Radio Burst Came From an Old, Dead Galaxy

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense flashes of radio light that last for only a fraction…

Tracing the Big Ideas that Led to Webb

At the end of large engineering projects, the design team is typically asked to develop a…

Black Hole Jets Seen Forming in Real-Time

A short time ago, astronomers observed a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) located in a galaxy…