Maybe Venus Was Never Habitable

Although they are very different today, Venus, Earth, and Mars were very similar in their youth.…

Astronauts on Long Missions Will Need Personal AI Assistants

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronauts on long-term space missions? This is what a recent…

Could Primordial Black Holes Be Hiding in Plain Sight?

Are Primordial Black Holes real? They could’ve formed in the unusual physics that dominated the Universe…

NASA Wants Students’ Help Designing Missions to Other Moons

One of NASA’s primary missions is to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers to…

Catch Jupiter at Opposition 2024 This Coming Weekend

Now is the time to catch Jupiter at its best. The King of the Planets rules…

Antarctica Has Gotten 10 Times Greener in 35 Years

Our satellites are dispassionate observers of Earth’s climate change. From their vantage point they watch as…

White Dwarfs Could Have Habitable Planets, Detectable by JWST

In a few billion years, our Sun will die. It will first enter a red giant…

Asteroid COWECP5 to impact Earth over Russia on December 3

A newly-discovered asteroid currently designated COWECP5 is expected to impact Earth’s atmosphere over Siberia, Russia at…

Dragonfly is Going to Titan on a Falcon Heavy

NASA has given SpaceX the contract to launch the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. A…

A New Reconfigurable Structure Could Be Used to Make Space Habitats

Even some fields that seem fully settled will occasionally have breakthrough ideas that have reverberated impacts…