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With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
When the Hubble Space Telescope first launched in 1990, there was so much we didn’t know. Here’s how far we’ve come.
In 1054, a core-collapse supernova occurred 6500 light-years away. In 2023, JWST imaged the remnant, and might solve a massive mystery.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.
After decades of development, whether NASA’s Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.
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.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.
The James Webb Space Telescope finally could answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
Fire was crucial to the evolution of human technology. That’s why alien species stuck in the “oxygen bottleneck” may be forever primitive.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.
The midwest is particularly filled with them.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
From black holes to dark energy to chances for life in the Universe, our cosmic journey to understand it all is just getting started.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.
Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
Though a single measurement is not enough to definitively decide the debate, this is a major win for dark matter proponents.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery… consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”