space exploration

After long-duration spaceflight, structural connectivity changes happen in the brain. While reported by astronauts that spent long stints on the International Space Station (ISS), a study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits analyzes…

While mapping radio waves in the Universe, a team discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy 3x an hour—and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before. They think it might be a neutron star or a white…

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) announced the beginning of operations for phase-2 of DARPA's Optimization with Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum devices (ONISQ) program. Phase 1 launched in 2020, and USRA was selected to lead…

Just over 2,537 light-years away shines the Andromeda Galaxy. It is the closest large galaxy to us and has a bright bar structure at its center, making it a "barred spiral galaxy." Astronomers have found an intermediate-mass black hole…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is on its way, completing the intricate process of unfolding as it travels. The telescope’s sun shield and primary mirror were folded origami-style to fit into the Ariane rocket, its taxi into space. The…

The risk is real. Space missions carry all sorts of important logistical and scientific instrumentation. They also carry the risk of biological contamination according to a recent article in BioScience. Researchers with expertise in…

NASA selected SpaceX to develop the first commercial human lander that will carry the next two American astronauts to the moon as part of the Artemis program. The Space Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion…

The planet GJ 1132 b was born a gaseous world with a thick blanket of atmosphere and several times the radius of Earth. The "sub-Neptune" lost its primordial hydrogen and helium atmosphere because of intense radiation from its hot, young…

Motiv Space Systems, in partnership with JPL, announced the COLDArm, the first-in-kind robotic arm that will be built to survive the extreme cold of the Moon's South Pole. Short for Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) is a vital…

Q-CTRL announced that it will provide the first quantum sensing and navigation technologies for space exploration beginning with unmanned lunar missions by Australia’s SEVEN SISTERS space industry consortium. These missions will begin in…