April 20, 2017April 20, 2017 by Cody

Asteroid Day is June 30, 2017

Nobody Owns the Moon...And That's Going to be a Problem July 31, 2025
In January of 2024, the company Astrobiotic was set to make history with the first privately-developed lander, named Peregrine, to reach the Lunar surface, sent aboard a United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket.
Primordial Black Holes Could Act As Seeds For Quasars July 31, 2025
Plenty of groups have been theorizing about Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their candidacy as a potential source of dark matter. But, if they existed, they also had other roles to play in the early universe. According to a recent draft paper released on arXiv by Jeremy Mould and […]
Lunar Dust Mitigation Requires Collaboration And Lots of Tests July 31, 2025
Collaboration has always been a hallmark of space research. Experts in different disciplines come together to work towards a common goal, and many times achieve that. One of the current goals of space exploration is long-term settlement of the Moon, and in order to achieve that goal, engineers and astronauts will have to deal with […]
A New Lunar Far Side Radio Telescope Is Ready For Testing July 31, 2025
We’ve been talking about sending a radio telescope to the far side of the Moon for awhile now. Now that reality is one step closer with the completion of the design and construction phase of the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night) radio telescope project. This milestone marks a major step in the development of the […]
JWST Reveals Four Distinct CO₂ Types on Saturn’s Moons July 31, 2025
What can carbon dioxide (CO₂) on Saturn’s moons teach scientists about their formation and evolution? This is what a recent study submitted to The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the different types of CO₂ that exist on several of Saturn’s mid-sized moons. This study has the potential to […]