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Prop 8 – The Musical

Reusable Chinese Rocket Soft-Lands in the Ocean in a New Test June 3, 2025
Chinese rocket startup Space Epoch put on a show recently, with a demonstration test launch of their reusable Yanxinghe-1 rocket booster.
How Likely Is Life on Mars? June 2, 2025
Mars is by far the most Earth-like planet in the solar system…but that’s not saying much.
Missions to Mars with the Starship Could Only Take Three Months June 2, 2025
In a recent paper, UCSB physicist Jack Kingdon identified a trajectory for a rapid transit (90 days) to Mars using SpaceX's Starship. This proposal offers an alternative to mission architectures that rely on nuclear propulsion to reduce transit times.
Future Telescopes Could Detect Life Managing their Planet Atmospheres June 2, 2025
The challenge in the search for habitable worlds is clear. We need to be able to identify habitable worlds and distinguish between biotic and abiotic processes. Ideally, scientists would do this on entire populations of exoplanets rather than on a case-by-case basis. Exoplanets' natural thermostats might provide a way of doing this.
Traveling to Mars and Ceres Using Lunar Gateway as a Springboard June 1, 2025
How can humanity use the developing Lunar Gateway as an appropriate starting point for advancing human space exploration beyond the Moon? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) hopes to address as a team of researchers evaluated a myriad of ways that Lunar Gateway could be […]