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Penguin and compact elliptical galaxy eggNASA, ESA, CSA, STScI NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been turning its powerful eye to space for more than two…

In 2025, the first signs of life outside our solar system may be detected.Crucial to this potential breakthrough is the 6.5-meter diameter James Webb Space Telescope…

Is it true? Yeah. Look, I can prove it. This is a plot of the Earth and Moon’s orbits around the Sun over half a month.…

international space stationMSFC/NASA Samantha Harvey won Britain’s highest fiction award, the Man Booker Prize, for her novel. Orbitalhas created a new genre of nature writing about…

Hidden somewhere in the dark of space, there is a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. If we don’t discover it and somehow stop…

When it comes to natural disasters, it is often impossible to predict more than a few months or even days in advance. We cannot say, “There…

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO During its short lifetime, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) forever changed our understanding of the universe. It has gazed…

U.S. space officials don’t like to talk about the dangers for astronauts flying on the aging International Space Station, which is more than a quarter-century old.But…

During the Age of Sailing, ships circumnavigated the Earth on journeys of discovery and trade. That era ended in the 1800s, when coal-fired steam engines began…

A chemical reaction that recycles carbon dioxide into fresh oxygen could provide more sustainable life support for astronauts on the Moon or Mars. It could also…