Deflecting a hazardous asteroid
An artwork of NASA’s DART mission, which was a kinetic impactor designed to test whether it is possible to deflect an asteroid. Credit: NASA/ Johns Hopkins APL. CC BY-NC-SA. Researchers look for the ‘keyhole’ in a bid to find the safest spots to deflect a...
Was Mars doomed to be a desert?
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this photo as it ascended the Martian mountain Mt. Sharp. A study proposes a new explanation for why Mars is a barren desert today, despite having many similarities to Earth. Credit: Photo by NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ MSSS. Public domain....
Science fiction made fact
Recreation of the landscape of the exoplanet Barnard b orbiting its star. Image © IAC/ Gabriel Pérez. Astronomers Jonay González Hernández and Alejandro Suárez Mascareño of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s...