On July 12, 2022, NASA will release the first science images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope. Here’s what to hope for.
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If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
The largest hazardous asteroid found in the last 8 years showcases a little-known class of planet-killers. And we’re woefully unprepared.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
For many, it was just a successful launch like any other. But for scientists around the globe, it was a victory few dared to imagine.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
We may have discovered alien life already but rejected the evidence too quickly because it seemed false at first glance.
Experts say it’s likely space junk—and there’s plenty more where that came from.
An effect called the “urban heat island” means that temperatures are often 10 degrees higher in cities, according to NASA.
Knowing that technology would advance in the future, NASA put some moon rock samples into storage without opening them. Now, they have.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
Until recently, we were only able to view Venus’s surface with radar or by landing on the planet. It was believed that Venus’s surface was entirely obscured by clouds; NASA’s Parker Solar Probe proved otherwise.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
How can you “touch the Sun” if you’ve always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun’s photosphere?
Sooner or later, Earth is going to be hit by a large enough space object to cause significant damage to humanity. Stopping them isn’t easy.
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.
1.9 billion years ago, a star’s explosive death created a black hole. Its light just arrived at Earth. But did it set a cosmic record?
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.
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Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.
Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
From exoplanets to supermassive black holes to the first stars and galaxies, Webb will show us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before.
Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.
Somewhere out there in the Universe is the heaviest neutron star, and elsewhere lies the lightest black hole. Where’s the line between them?
Not too hot, not too cold…
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!