The Dazzling Sun of 2024
From totality to tremendous light shows, our sun put on a shining performance. The sun had a big year in…
Category: Astronomy
Scientists Grow First Plants in Lunar Soil
Last May, scientists reported that they’d successfully grown plants in moon soil for the first time. At the University of…
Explore the 10 nearest stars
If you want to study the stars, there’s no better place to start than close to home. After all, the…
Unbound and Out: Boosted by black holes, stars speed off, leaving clues behind
Space oddities may help reveal dark matter and other secrets in the Milky Way. Astronomer Warren Brown explains. In April,…
Want to be a Mars Astronaut? You’ll Need the Proper Mindset
NASA is studying what personality an astronaut candidate needs to make the journey to Mars. Can we go to Mars…
En route to Mars, astronauts may face big health risks
Frank Borman was probably the first person to barf in space. Borman was part of NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, which…
The long road to Mars
Something about going to Mars has captivated the space-curious for generations; from scientists who want to build the spaceships and…
Brave New Jupiter
For the last five years, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been barrelling towards its final destination: Jupiter, king of the planets.…
The Mars Anomaly
Credit: NASA The presence of water isn’t the only Mars mystery scientists are keen to probe. Another centers around a…
How we got to Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently reached the orbit of Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt.…