The Perseverance rover just provided its first Martian weather report (it was cold!), which could help inform future missions involving astronauts.
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So, you want to find dark matter, but you don’t know where to look? A giant planet might be exactly the kind of particle detector you need! Luckily,...
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has long roots in human history.* With the advent of modern technologies, scientists were finally...
X-rays offer a unique insight into the astronomical world.  Invisible to the naked eye, most commonly they are thought of as the semi-dangerous...
Recently we reported on a haul of 2,200 new exoplanets from the 2 year primary mission of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). But that...
Exoplanetology has been on a tear recently.* This is largely due to an abundance of data collected by a new generation of satellites, one of which is...
The EmDrive is a hypothetical rocket that proponents claim can generate thrust with no exhaust. This would violate all known physics. In 2016, a team...
Computer models are continuing to play an increasing role in scientific discovery.* Everything from the first moments after the Big Bang to potential...