It’s challenging to make predictions, especially in astronomy. There are however, a few forecasts astronomers…
SpaceX Inspiration4 Mission Will Send 4 People with Minimal Training into Orbit – and Bring Space Tourism Closer to Reality
On Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists are set to lift off…
Cold Planets Exist Throughout Our Galaxy, Even in the Galactic Bulge
Although thousands of planets have been discovered in the Milky Way, most reside less than…
New Mathematical Solutions to an Old Problem in Astronomy
For millennia, humanity has observed the changing phases of the Moon. The rise and…
A Lunar-Based Soft X-Ray Imager (LSXI) for the Earth’s Magnetosphere
The solar wind-magnetosphere coupling and its dynamic process are the basic driving factors for space…
What Goes Up Should Come Down: Spacecraft Deorbiting Device Developed at Purdue Ready for Upcoming Test Launch
A drag sail that a team at Purdue University developed to pull launch vehicles in space back…
Dartmouth Engineering Receives $1.25m from NASA to Study Space Ice
An engineering lab at Dartmouth has been awarded two grants totaling $1.25 million to conduct…
How Special Are We?
The radioactive elements could have been blown onto the nascent solar system by a nearby…
Here Comes the Sun: Planetary Scientists Find Evidence of Solar-Driven Change on the Moon
Tiny iron nanoparticles unlike any found naturally on Earth are nearly everywhere on the Moon—and…
Fast Changes Between the Solar Seasons Resolved by New Sun Clock
New solar cycle clock resolves timings of solar activity, revealing the long and the short…
