Latest articles by Julian Dossett
The microwave-sized sensor detects 'spectral fingerprints' of important minerals.
Check out the first findings from the Subaru Telescope.
What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?
Would you like to live in a house on Mars made with Earth bacteria and Martian rocks?
What do volcanic plumes look like from space?
The term cosmovision refers to a conception of the universe in totality.
Also, what the heck is a magnetofossil?
Scientists have spotted a mysterious mineral on Mars that may be new to science — and could help reveal some Red Planet mysteries.
This novel idea could become an important piece of a future moon economy.
Scientists get closer to solving the mysterious relationship between lightning and powerful gamma-ray bursts.
Researchers have provided some new insights about the powerful geomagnetic storm that flared up last Mother's Day, after a big solar storm hit Earth.
Seattle startup Interlune's newly unveiled machine is designed to churn up 110 tons (100 metric tons) of moon dirt per hour to harvest helium-3, a fuel for future fusion reactors.
The huge antenna for Europe's newly launched Biomass forest-monitoring satellite has been successfully deployed, a big milestone for the mission.
After a pair of satellites failed to reach their desired orbit around the moon last year, China used a novel gravity "slingshot" tactic to get the satellites in the correct spot.
A new study suggests trees in the forest can access ancient memories and "talk" to each other hours before a solar eclipse.
DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water.
The first bits of data have come back from NASA's EZIE cubesat mission, which aims to solve some mysteries surrounding the "auroral electrojet" phenomena in Earth's atmosphere.
NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a "stellar occultation."
Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.
A fleet of cubesats will act as a radio telescope to map the cosmic Dark Ages, its builders say.
NASA released a set of photos highlighting the newly arrived HALO module for Gateway, a small space station that the agency aims to launch to lunar orbit in 2027.
The European Space Agency just released some new snapshots from its Mars Express orbiter that detail the dynamic terrain of the Red Planet's Acheron Fossae region.
The crew of Blue Origin's NS-31 mission, which is scheduled to launch on April 14, includes a former NASA rocket scientist, television personalities, authors — and Katy Perry.
