Old data are yielding new discoveries about Venus’ volcanism. Analysis of radar data from NASA’s Magellan orbiter has found evidence of the formation of new rock on the Venusian surface, likely from lava flows from two volcanoes, suggesting that these volcanoes erupted while the spacecraft orbited the planet in the 1990s. This adds to...
Economist Mariana Mazzucato likes to describe the investment world as a landscape; a “bumpy and complex one,” as she puts it. Government’s job—when government is visionary and well-run and not dogmatically following...
The commercial space industry has seen growth in recent years, with an increasing number of rocket launches and satellites being sent into orbit. This growth has led to the development of new spaceports...
When Brant Robertson saw a new measurement of the distance to a familiar galaxy, he laughed out loud.
For more than a decade, the galaxy had been a contender for the most distant ever observed....
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has long been at the forefront of scientific research and policy recommendations in the United...
Liquids aren't as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about.
This...
This short and colorful book, written by Ana Braga-Henebry, illustrated by Anita Barghigiani, and published by Word on Fire Spark, tells the story of...
Chemistry is key to chocolate’s flavor, but some molecules, like genotoxic furan-2(5H)-one, can pose health risks if present in high concentrations. A study found...