Environmental Tech
Roots in the Sky: An Astronaut’s Guide to Farming on Mars
Farming on Mars may be possible, even without terraforming it first. The Martian soil just needs...
Frontiers
Frontiers
Picking Up the Pieces: O-REx Brings Back the Past to Build the Future
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sailed up to the carbon-rich Bennu asteroid in December 2018, gathering samples that...
Engineering
Quantum Technology Accelerates the Search for Dark Matter
The search for dark matter recently received a boost from quantum technology.
Engineering
Too Cool for School: US University Traps Cold Plasma
Plasmas are important to understand. Yet ultrahot plasmas are difficult to control and challenging to study....
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A Lake on Saturn’s Moon Titan Is More Than a Sea Monster
Saturn's moon Titan represents a model environment of a possible atmosphere of early Earth.
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Nap Quest: How Suspended Animation Could Fuel Space Exploration
Suspended animation may offer an approach to space exploration that lets us go farther and faster...
Black Holes
Fermi Bubbles Reveal an Exploding Galaxy: Our Own
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered two vast plumes of energetic gas near the Milky Way...
Black Holes
First Image of Black Hole Shadows Suggests Einstein Was Right — Again
Don't bet against Albert Einstein. The first image of black hole shadows suggests that Einstein's theory...
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More Geysers on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
NASA's Cassini space probe has provided more evidence of a subsurface ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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What Ever Happened to the Moon’s Magnetosphere?
The astronauts who brought back moon rocks half a century ago also revealed a lunar mystery:...
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Venus Rocks! And Some May Have Ended Up on the Moon
Venus rocks may help us understand the forbidden planet of our solar system, which is at...
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Red Planet Road Trip: Space Travel to Mars Meets Speculative Sightseeing
When regular space travel to Mars becomes a reality, what would a Red Planet road trip...
Black Holes
A Supermassive Black Hole Sheds Light on Early Universe
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile have discovered a clump of six galaxies...
Frontiers
Juno Spacecraft May Extend Jupiter Mission
NASA mission planners might be giving the go-ahead for a new Jupiter mission using the existing...