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Author: Michael Carroll

Painting showing astronauts surveying a crater floor in search of water deposits
Human Spaceflight, Solar System

The Moon’s water is sparking a new ‘gold rush’

Earth and the Moon
Science, Space Exploration

How the Moon can save Earth

Mercury, shown in an enhanced-color image from NASA’s Messenger probe. Credit: NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington
Science

Are glaciers on Mercury a link to life?

Solar System

The mysterious origins of Mercury’s hollows might answer bigger questions

Venus, where a year is about 225 days.
Solar System

Why is Venus so different from Earth?

Exotic Objects

The strange, speedy stars at the center of the Milky Way

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Swarms of swimming robots may soon explore alien seas

Exoplanets

The strange case of eyeball planets

Alien Life, Exoplanets, Planets

The hunt for Earth’s bigger cousins

Dwarf Planet Ceres
Solar System

Explore Ceres’ icy secrets

Alien Life, Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Searching for life on Saturn’s big moon

Alien Life, Solar System

Voyage to the bottom of an alien sea

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