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News of the latest adventures into space, and plans of upcoming explorations across the stars.
Blame It on Jupiter: Venus Might Have Been Habitable Without Its Influence
Missions to Mars have been planned since the 1950s, when the concept of life on Mars first seemed to captivate the…
Citizen Scientists Help Astronomers Find 100 Cool Brown Dwarfs
The power of many is increasingly being harnessed as scientists and citizen scientists work together to collect…
ICs Blast Off Onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission
Renesas has announced that more than 20 of its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs) were onboard…
Bayesian Statistics Can Tell Us How Extraterrestrial Life Might Evolve
While humans have been wondering whether we are alone in the universe since antiquity, our fascination with…
Undersea Volcanic Clay Bacteria Could Change How We Search for Life on Mars
Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given researchers clues about how…
Astronaut Urine: A New Building Material on the Moon
You read that right.
Space agencies are working diligently to erect modules on the Moon for human colonization.…
Japanese Astronomers Think Planets Could Form Around Black Holes
First it was the discovery earlier this month that the galaxy known as NGC 6240 has three supermassive black holes…
Terraforming Mars: Exploring Research and Possibilities
Even before Robert Heinlein wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1961 science fiction classic about "the Man from…
Spaceport America Opens Hangar Doors for the First Time
Throughout the decades, the gallivanting escapades of the Starship Enterprise - traversing the depths of where…
Interplanetary Shock Observations Give Scientists Greater Insight into Deep Space…
The sun is always releasing streams of charged particles, dubbed “solar winds.” When a fast-moving solar wind…