A robotic chemist could whip up the perfect batch of oxygen on Mars
Humans on Mars will need oxygen, and Mars’ atmosphere is pretty anemic when it comes to the life-sustaining element. NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully extracted...
Scientists detect the second-most distant galaxy using Webb Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a remarkable tool of NASA, has recently made an exciting discovery in a part of space known as...
Under some conditions, comets could deliver organic molecules to planets
Approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, the planets of the inner Solar System experienced many impacts from comets and asteroids that originated in...
Australian Space Agency announced the Lunar Rover naming shortlist today
The Australian Space Agency launched a competition back in September to name the Aussie-made rover which will be sent to the Moon on a...
The universe can’t hide behind the zone of avoidance any longer
Our view of the cosmos is always limited by the fact we are located within a galaxy filled with interstellar gas and dust.
This is...
Can a dead star keep exploding?
In September 2022, an automated sky survey detected what seemed to be a supernova explosion about one billion light-years away.
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)...
Life might be easiest to find on planets that match an earlier earth
We’re inching closer and closer to reliably detecting biosignatures on distant planets.
Much of the focus is on determining which chemicals indicate life’s presence.
But life...
Why some distant exoplanets are mysteriously shrinking
Have you ever wondered about planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets? They come in all sizes, from small, rocky ones like Earth...
Scientists suspect there’s ice hiding on the Moon, and a host of missions are...
Building a space station on the Moon might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but each new lunar mission is bringing...
How black holes consume entropy
Entropy is one of those fearsomely deep concepts that form the core of entire fields of physics (in this case, thermodynamics) that is unfortunately...