Birds use Dynamic Soaring to Pick Up Velocity. We Could Use a Similar Trick to Go Interstellar

By Matthew Williams - December 15, 2022 01:37 PM UTC | Space Exploration

A new proposal for an interstellar mission shows how a solar sail could use the same technique birds do to pick up speed.

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Sierra Space Inflated a Habitat to Destruction, Testing its Limits Before Going to Orbit

By Nancy Atkinson - December 15, 2022 11:27 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Rubble Pile Asteroids Might be the Best Places to Build Space Habitats

By Brian Koberlein - December 15, 2022 10:54 AM UTC | Planetary Science

A new study looks at the practicality of living in a common near-Earth asteroid

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Could Life Survive on Frigid Exo-Earths? Maybe Under Ice Sheets

By Evan Gough - December 14, 2022 06:57 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Perseverance Heard a Dust Devil on Mars, and Now You Can Too

By Nancy Atkinson - December 14, 2022 01:16 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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The Oort Cloud Could Have More Rock Than Previously Believed

By Evan Gough - December 14, 2022 12:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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The Formation of the Southern Ring Nebula was Messier Than the Death of a Single Star

By Brian Koberlein - December 14, 2022 10:22 AM UTC | Stars

Astronomers have learned a planetary nebula had a much more complex origin than originally thought.

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Hubble Sees a Glittering Jewel in the Small Magellanic Cloud. But the Jewel is Disappearing

By Evan Gough - December 13, 2022 04:18 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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ESA's Upcoming Mission Will Tell us if Venus is Still Volcanically Active

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 13, 2022 04:06 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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In Case you Missed it, Here are Some Amazing Pictures of Mars Hiding Behind the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - December 13, 2022 03:27 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Astronomers Spot Three Interacting Systems with Twin Discs

By Matthew Williams - December 13, 2022 02:32 PM UTC | Stars

Using the SPHERE instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers observed how interaction between disks affects the evolution of planetaary systems.

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How Growing Giant Planets Fight for Food

By Paul Sutter - December 13, 2022 02:06 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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The Voids Closest to Us May Not be Entirely Empty

By Paul Sutter - December 13, 2022 01:20 PM UTC | Cosmology

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We Have Ignition! Fusion Breakthrough Raises Hopes — and Questions

By Alan Boyle - December 13, 2022 12:26 PM UTC | Physics

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Asteroids Didn't Create the Moon's Largest Craters. Left-Over Planetesimals Did

By Evan Gough - December 13, 2022 11:44 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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Orion Splashes Down in the Pacific Ocean, Completing the Artemis I Mission

By Matthew Williams - December 12, 2022 10:35 PM UTC | Missions

The Artemis I mission has splashed down, ending its mission and validating the technology that will take astronauts back to the Moon.

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Webb Completes its First "Deep Field" With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?

By Evan Gough - December 12, 2022 04:48 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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Black Holes Shouldn't be Able to Merge, but Dozens of Mergers Have Been Detected. How Do They Do It?

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - December 12, 2022 02:28 PM UTC | Black Holes

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Perhaps a Supervoid Doesn't Explain the Mysterious CMB Cold Spot

By Paul Sutter - December 12, 2022 02:07 PM UTC | Cosmology

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A Black Hole has been Burping for 100 Million Years

By Evan Gough - December 12, 2022 11:44 AM UTC | Black Holes

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