A look through time with the James Webb Space Telescope. The big galaxy in the foreground is named LEDA 2046648, and is seen just over a billion years back in…
Category: Planetary Science
Firefoxes and whale spouts light up Earth’s shield
Credit: All-sky camera, Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory (KAGO) within the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF). Data provided as part of ESA’s Space Weather Service Network Did you know…
NASA’s VERITAS science team studies volcanic Iceland
Members of the VERITAS science team descend a slope to new rock formed from a recent flow of lava during their Iceland field campaign in early August. The team used…
If astronomers see these chemicals in a planet’s atmosphere, there’s likely an advanced civilization there
Artist rendition of a potential water-world exoplanet that might support advanced civilizations. Such life could advertise its existence via technosignatures from industrial or other activities. Credit: ESA / Hubble /…
NASA joins the still controversial search for UFOs
Reports of UAPs — unidentified anomalous phenomena — have long fascinated the public but were historically shunned by mainstream science. NASA on Thursday officially joined the search for UFOs—but reflecting…
Signs of life? Why astronomers are excited about CO2 and methane in the atmosphere of an alien world
Credit: NASA / CSA / ESA / J. Olmsted (STScI) / Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University) Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, this…
Possible hints of life found on distant planet. How excited should we be?
The exoplanet K2-18b might host a water ocean. Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University) Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown…
One American, two Russians blast off in Russian capsule to International Space Station
In this photo released by Roscosmos space corporation, from left, NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, crew members of the new mission to the International…
Webb snaps supersonic outflow of young star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analog of our Sun. Herbig-Haro objects…
