SpaceX has just acquired two former oil drilling rigs off the coast of Texas, which it is converting into launch facilities called Phobos and Deimos...
In the academic literature, review papers are widespread, and can help ground discussion on a specific topic by bringing new researchers up to speed...
The Earth’s oceans are notoriously unexplored, and stand as a monument to the difficult of exploring underwater.* But they aren’t the only unexplored...
Some of the most stunningly powerful objects in the sky aren’t necessarily the prettiest to look at.* But their secrets can allow humanity to glimpse...
Who has an even bigger grin than ten years ago? This goofy-looking crater on Mars. These two images were taken by the HiRISE camera (High Resolution...
What’s better than two gigantic galaxies swirling into one another until they collide?* How about three galaxies swirling into one another until they...
Likely the most well-known result of the Earth’s magnetic field are the Aurora Borealis and Australis (Northern and Southern Lights).* When chargers...
Staying afloat in space can be deceptively hard.  Just ask the characters from Gravity, or any number of the hundreds of small satellites that fall...
In a new study, a pair of Harvard astrophysicists did the math on whether or not BLC1 is an extraterrestrial signal - and the results are not good!
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