Science

The James Webb Space Telescope achieved a rarity — snapping an image of a planet beyond our solar system. The exoplanet, Epsilon Indi Ab, is located 12 light-years away. That’s trillions of miles, but right next door, cosmically speaking. The world is somewhat like the gas giant Jupiter, but twice as massive. (For reference, “If...

Yellowstone is an active volcano — it’s not Disneyland with bison.  It’s a park teeming with over 500 spewing geysers, in addition to many boiling hot springs. On July 23, one of Yellowstone’s thousands of thermal features, near a hot spring called Sapphire Pool, exploded. Visitors fled as a plume of mud and rock shot...

The sun, in a heightened state of solar activity, has hurled a potent mass of material at Earth. This could mean glorious aurora, or Northern Lights, over parts of the U.S. on July 24, according to the federal government’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The inciting event, which occurred on July 21, is intense but normal....

Space images never get old, do they? To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory being launched into space, NASA has published 25 brand new images snapped by the telescope — everything from supermassive black holes to supernova remnants. The telescope’s X-ray technology allows it to light up regions of space that scientists...

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Great floods once poured down a towering Martian mountain. And NASA’s dust-covered Curiosity rover has proof. The car-sized NASA robot has spent much of 2024 exploring the Gediz Vallis channel, a dried-up waterway that travels down the three-mile-high Mount Sharp. Although Mars today is 1,000 times drier than the driest desert on Earth, the rover...

Scientists have long suspected the moon may harbor dark labyrinths. They now have proof one exists. In 2010, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite orbiting the moon, captured imagery of an intriguing pit on the moon’s surface, in the same region where the Apollo 11 astronauts landed. It was unknown if this was part of...

As the International Space Station nears its retirement in 2030, NASA and its contractors are working full tilt on a new lab that will be whizzing through space much farther from Earth. Right now, at a facility in Turin, Italy, engineers are stress-testing the core module for Gateway, a lunar space station designed to provide...