Characterizing near-Earths asteroids (NEAs) is critical if we hope to eventually stop one from hitting us. But so far, missions…
It seems like every month, a new story appears announcing the discovery of thousands of new asteroids. Tracking these small…
Rocket propulsion technology has progressed leaps and bounds since the first weaponised rockets of the Chinese and Mongolian empires. They…
One of the hardest things for many people to conceptualize when talking about how fast something is going is that…
A recent study presented this week at the 2023 meeting of the American Geophysical Union discusses observations of “hot Jupiters”…
Typically when you think of a satellite, you think of a metal box with electronic components inside it. But that…
New in-space propulsion techniques seem to be popping out of the woodwork. The level of innovation behind moving things around…
Space exploration is driven by technology - sometimes literally in the case of propulsion technologies. Solar sails are one of…
When Oumuamua, the first interstellar object ever observed passing through the Solar System, was discovered in 2017, it exhibited some…
A new nanosat has been quietly snapping over 4500 pictures of the Earth and the sky after its launch on…