Work on the James Webb Space Telescope is just getting started. The new observatory, the largest space telescope ever built, successfully unfolded its final primary mirror segment on Saturday (Jan. 8), capping off what NASA has billed as one of … Read More
It marks the first time a plant has been grown on the Moon. China made history by landing its Chang’e-4 spacecraft on the Moon’s far side. The mission was also the first to experiment with growing plants on the Moon, … Read More
Author: Chris Impey When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity’s first steps out of Africa. Such a birth would mark the beginning of a multi–planet civilization for the human species. For the … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield, a requirement for the telescope’s science operations and the most tense part of its risky deployment. Yesterday (Jan. 4), the difficult procedure, which required careful … Read More
Earth’s magnetic north pole, which has been wandering faster than expected in recent years, has now crossed the prime meridian. The team of researchers that maintain the World Magnetic Model (WMM) has updated it and released it a year ahead … Read More
The Chinese space agency complained to the UN about two evasive maneuvers required to avoid ‘close encounters’ with orbiting Starlink devices. The China Manned Space Program launched five missions successfully this year, but those achievements were overshadowed by two near-collisions. … Read More