May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 by Cody

May 2021

Exoplanet Hunters May Be Misrepresenting The Likelihood Of Their Findings June 30, 2025
There’s nothing to get a scientist’s heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics like finding Earth analogues or hints of a biosignature in an atmosphere, those statistical debates could have real world consequences, both for the assignment of additional observational resources, but also for humanity’s general understanding of itself […]
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 […]
HAKUTO-R Mission 2's Crash was Caused by its Laser Range Finder June 30, 2025
The Japanese company ispace released the technical details that likely doomed the landing of their Hakuto-R Mission 2 lunar lander earlier this month. According to a press release, their engineers narrowed down the issue to a failure of the spacecraft's Laser Range Finder (LRF). Engineers suspect that the LRF's performance deteriorated during flight, causing it […]
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.