A worldwide team of dedicated observers ‘stood in the shadow’ of asteroid Didymos recently, as it passed in front of...
Month: October 2022
The life of every star is a fight against gravity. Stars are so massive they risk collapsing under their own...
We may take it for granted, but every day we receive picture postcards from the robotic travelers we have sent...
When we look at images of star birth regions, they look both placid and active at the same time. That’s...
In a few years, NASA and the ESA will conduct the long-awaited Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. This mission will...
The Fermi Paradox won’t go away. It’s one of our most compelling thought experiments, and generations of scientists keep wrestling...
Earlier this month we asked, what could be better than a pair of galaxies observed by a pair of iconic...
A prototype of ESA’s new heavy lift rocket is now fully assembled and sitting on the launchpad at Europe’s Spaceport...
Gravitational assists are marvels of orbital mechanics. Usually, they are done for a combination of fuel (i.e., cost) savings and...
The Universe is over 13 billion years old, so a 12-year slice of that time might seem uneventful. But a...
