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NASA's Next Solar Sail Is About to Go to Space
Everyone knows that solar energy is free and almost limitless here on Earth. The same is...
To Fight Climate Change, We Could Block the Sun
Can we build an enormous umbrella to dim the Sun? Such a feat would be a...
Modeling of Pulsed Plasma Rocket Shows It Should Be Possible to Create One
We’ve reported on a technology called pulsed plasma rockets (PPRs) here at UT a few times....
Iron Snow Could Explain the Magnetic Fields at Worlds Like Ganymede
“iron snow” created as iron cools and crystallizes near the moon’s core-mantle boundary, sinks, and then...
Titan's "Magic Islands" Could Be Floating Blobs of Organic Solids
Organic and nitrogen-based molecules created via photochemical reactions in Titan’s atmosphere should be solid when they...
Astronomers Measure the Mass of the Milky Way by Calculating How Hard it is to Escape
Measuring the mass of the Milky Way through statistical analysis of the escape velocity of stars
Surprise! Japan's SLIM Moon Lander Wakes Up After a Freezing Night
responded to commands from JAXA
There's One Last Place Planet 9 Could Be Hiding
A recently submitted study to The Astronomical Journal continues to search for the elusive Planet Nine...
Passing Stars Changed the Orbits of Planets in the Solar System
The orbit of Earth around the Sun is always changing. It doesn’t change significantly from year...
Are we stuck with the Zoo Hypothesis?
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, famed physicist...
