Your room can be instantly flooded with light with the flip of a switch. In fact, there’s no perceivable lag at all. Because emitted photons travel at a speed of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second, light only takes 1/500,000th … Read More
Jupiter is a secretive swirl of coffee and cream. We’re only beginning to understand the stories that lie beneath its undulating cloud bands. Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, has played a crucial role in solving these mysteries. The probe’s JunoCam has been … Read More
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has taken its first photo and video of the Sun. The images are the highest-resolution views of our star ever taken, revealing details on the Sun’s surface as small as 18 miles across. The … Read More
The first and only total lunar eclipse of 2021 will occur in the early morning hours of May 26. However, because it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse, and a red blood moon all at once, this is going … Read More
Asteroid 99942 Apophis has been a serious reminder for the past 17 years that there are plenty of space rocks out there ready to hit the Earth and wipe out a significant portion of our planet. Although there are still … Read More
Stunning new images of spidery frost deposits and deep canyons on Mars, as well as new gas discoveries, have rocked the science world for a month full of news on the Red Planet as a total of three new Mars … Read More