Interstellar travel may not be lightyears away. Breakthrough Starshot, an international research project, recently provided an update on its plans to send a probe to Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system. Before that, it will have to develop and … Read More
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now fully aligned, and NASA has the pictures to prove it. Every mirror on the JWST, the world’s largest and most powerful telescope, is now officially aligned and in focus. To announce the achievement, the … Read More
NASA has agreed to test a new way of getting things into space—by spinning them really fast and throwing them straight up from the ground. A strange structure resembling a huge yo-yo with a small smokestack can be seen rising … Read More
Scientists have discovered an enormous planet nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation – describing it as still in the womb – in a discovery that calls into question current theories about planetary formation. … Read More
The photos of objects in space that you can get these days with a high-quality telescope are incredible. Take, for example, German astrophotographer Sebastian Voltmer’s photo of the International Space Station, in which two astronauts can be seen clambering on … Read More
Supernova 1987A is a supernova remnant in the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The remnant was formed when a massive star exploded, which we witnessed here on Earth in February 1987. Since then, the remnant has … Read More