The lunar coordinate time system could serve as a foundation for developing a GPS-like navigation system on the moon. This would be a critical piece of infrastructure for future lunar…
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DTU-built equipment finds signs of biological life on Mars
The Perseverance Mars rover has found an intriguing rock that is the most promising sign yet that microorganisms—and thus biological life—once existed on Mars. The rover used a camera system…
Mars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won’t get this close again until 2033
This combination image, created from two photos provided by NASA, shows Jupiter pictured on April 3, 2017, left, and Mars pictured on Aug. 26, 2003, right. Credit: NASA via AP…
How can we build landing and launch pads on the moon?
If the future unfolds like some experts forecast, the moon is going to be one bustling spaceport. Vehicles will routinely blast in and rocket off the lunar surface, part of…
NASA tests deployment of Roman Space Telescope’s ‘visor’
After a successful test deployment at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, clean room technicians inspect the Deployable Aperture Cover for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit:…
Moore group develops innovative technique to detect elusive particles
A new publication led by Yale Applied Physics graduate student Jiaxiang Wang in “Physical Review Letters” called “Mechanical Detection of Nuclear Decays” explains the result. Other members of the group who contributed to…
Using small black holes to find big black holes
Scientists have developed a new method for detecting supermassive binary black holes, pairs of the largest kind of black holes in the Universe and located at the very centre of…
Ancient grains of dust from space can be found on Earth—and provide clues about the life cycle of stars
In space, there are clouds that contain gas and dust ejected from stars. Our solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago from such a molecular cloud. Most of these…
Newborn moon may have had many mini-siblings in Earth orbit long ago
When Earth and our moon were much closer together than they are now, the duo could have had tiny companions, or a disk revolving around them in orbits around the…
