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If you’ve ever dreamed of traveling through space as an explorer, you know there’ll be some serious “downside dangers”. One of them is cosmic rays. These high-speed particles slam through

On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow-moving glaciers,

How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of

Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by creating the first detailed map of magnetic fields in one of the most chaotic regions of space, the turbulent center of our own

Science is driven by our desire to understand things. In some cases, where it requires significant effort and investment to develop systems that can understand new things, science benefits from

Life arose early in Earth’s history. Was this an inevitable process, or an extremely unlikely event that happened early on, and what does this tell us about the likelihood of

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can

How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to locate lunar pits and skylights, which are surface depressions and openings, respectively, that serve as entrances to lava caves and lava tubes?

New research on the samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission is revolutionizing our understanding of how the Moon cooled. A team led by Stephen M. Elardo, an Assistant Professor from

We’ve been talking about sending a radio telescope to the far side of the Moon for awhile now. Now that reality is one step closer with the completion of the