The James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers’ new eye in the sky, has already captured images of the most distant galaxies ever seen. Now, NASA’s powerful infrared observatory is providing breathtaking views of our own cosmic neighborhood in snapshots released on … Read More
For a few nights more than 9,000 years ago, at a time when many of our ancestors were wearing animal skins, the northern skies would have been bright with flickering lights. Chemical isotopes in ancient ice cores indicate that one … Read More
Up until now, NASA has never paid too much attention to Uranus – but now the space agency wants to take a good, long look. And one of the things it might be investigating is all that gas. A NASA … Read More
Astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse literally blew its top in 2019, losing a significant portion of its visible surface and producing a massive Surface Mass Ejection (SME) after analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope … Read More
What’s the Latest? University of Cambridge physicists have discovered a theoretical foundation for the existence of wormholes, which are tubes that connect two different points in space-time. If a piece of information or a physical object could travel through the … Read More
The poles of Jupiter have fascinated and mesmerized us ever since space probe Juno gave us our first breathtaking views of the regions. In one of the latest pictures Juno has sent back of the north pole, you can see … Read More