November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 by Cody

Insight Mission to Mars

Webb Directly Images A Saturn-Sized Star In A Nearby System June 30, 2025
One of Webb’s strong points is its ability to directly image planets around another solar system. The telescope has been in operation for long enough now that a flood of those images are starting, as more and more systems come under the telescope’s gaze. One of those is described in a recent paper and press […]
How to Make Building Blocks for a Lunar Habitat June 30, 2025
The challenge of building habitats on the Moon is considerable, mainly because most additive manufacturing (aka. 3-D printing) techniques are not feasible. By utilizing a 3-D printing method known as light-based sintering, future missions to the Moon could manufacture bricks out of lunar regolith, rather than trying to build whole structures. This would facilitate a […]
The Presence of Certain Minerals May Explain Why the Lunar Farside and Nearside are so Different June 30, 2025
Why does the Moon have two different faces?. That question frames the lunar dichotomy: The nearside that faces us is different than the lunar farside. Scientists have worked hard to understand why that is, and new research says that the presence of certain minerals could explain why.
A Supermassive White Dwarf Is Pulsating Rapidly, Revealing Details Of Its Interior June 30, 2025
Scientists are constantly finding new ways to look at things, and that’s especially true for objects that represent an outlier of their specific type. Adjectives like “biggest”, “brightest”, or “fastest spinning” all seem to attract scientific studies - perhaps because they’re an easier sell to funding agencies. No matter the reason, that means we typically […]
Astronomers Explore Different Physics on Simulated Clones of the Milky Way June 30, 2025
How do you search for a substance that doesn't give off any kind of light, but its gravitational influence shapes galaxies? That's the challenge researchers face as they try to find and explain the mysterious substance called dark matter. They're wrestling with an invisible "something" that appears to make up much of all matter in […]