Much of spacecraft engineering is centered on mitigating the risks that come along with that re-entry process, but there’s one particular aspect of it that has remained a challe ...

Astronomers have long watched the Sun hurl plasma into space, but the idea of catching a distant star in the act has become a powerful benchmark for what modern observatories hope to achieve. The ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have developed a groundbreaking plasma tunnel to simulate the extreme conditions spacecraft face during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. This ...

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A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that stellar "space weather" could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect. Stellar activity and plasma ...