The InSight Lander arrived on Mars in 2018 to study the planet’s interior. Its mission ended…
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Planets Without Plate Tectonics Could Still Be Habitable
It has been thought that the existence of plate tectonics has been a significant factor in…
Astronomers are Losing the Night Sky (and Radio Sky) to Satellite Megaconstellations
When was the last time you looked up into the night sky and saw the Milky…
We Could Search for Aliens Harvesting Energy from their Pet Black Hole
Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we…
Here’s How Pluto and Charon Became a Bizarre Double Planet
On July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons probe made history by accomplishing the first flyby of…
NASA Lays Out Two New Options for Mars Sample Return
Months after deciding that its previous plan for bringing samples back from Mars wasn’t going to…
The Lunar Surface Remelted, Obscuring an Easy Answer to its True Age
How old is the Moon? Astronaut-gathered samples from the lunar surface put its age at about…
A CubeSat Mission Will Detect X-rays from GRBs and Black-Hole Mergers
The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One…
Venus is Important. We Should Take its Exploration Seriously.
When it comes to exploring our planetary neighbours, Mars tends to get a lot of the…
You’re Made of Carbon that Took a Journey into Intergalactic Space
I’ve used this fact a gazillion times; every atom in your body has been through the…