Space

The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration. Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload…

 A new study suggests that some forms of life could exist in Venus’ sulphuric acid clouds. Venus. Image credit: NASA/JPL, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A team of chemists and planetary scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Nanoplanet Consulting and MIT has sparked intriguing speculation by discovering evidence that a form of life, using sulfuric acid…