NASA’s James Webb Telescope found a Saturn-sized planet with Earth-like temperatures and a methane-rich atmosphere |
Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies…
Who You Send to the Moon Matters More Than You Think
Pick any great expedition in history and somewhere in the story, usually tucked away in a footnote, you’ll…
Scientists Locked ‘Virtual’ Astronauts in a Moon Base with Equipment Failures, Moonquakes and Extreme Radiation. Here’s What Happened.
When George Mason University scientists ran thousands of virtual simulations looking for the best ways to optimize group…
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression
Offbeat 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… pfft BORK!BORK!BORK! The National Space Centre in England took things a little…
A day on Earth is described as 24 hours, but the planet has been slowing down for billions of years — and growth rings in ancient coral fossils show that 380 million years ago, hundreds of millions of years before any dinosaur existed, an Earth day was only about 22 hours long
The length of a day on Earth is not constant. The planet’s rotation has been slowing for billions…
Red dwarf stars are cosmic killers that eat their own planets
Astronomers have discovered the first signs that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets. Scientists had…
NASA’s next major space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman, is expected to find roughly 100,000 new transiting planets in just five years — along with the largest catalogue ever assembled of rogue worlds drifting through the galaxy without a star to orbit
According to NASA’s December 2025 announcement that construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope had been completed,…
Unistellar blasts 15% off all smart telescope prices in Father’s Day sale
Ever caught your dad looking wistfully up into the night sky? Now could be the time to help…
Shenzhou-21 crew returns to Earth; taikonaut brings back apple from space, wishing future missions safe
Taikonaut Zhang Lu, commander of the three-member Shenzhou-21 crew, is out of the Shenzhou-22 spaceship’s return capsule after…
Light takes about 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the Earth, but the energy carried in that sunlight was generated in the sun’s core tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago — bouncing through the sun’s interior for that entire time before finally escaping its surface and making the 8-minute trip across space
Sunlight takes about eight minutes and twenty seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth. That figure…
Satellite Pics Show China Is Building Launch Pads Near Nuclear Missile Silos: Never Seen Anything Like It
In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears…
Don’t Miss May’s ‘Blue Moon’ Rise Tonight — Exact Times For Saturday
Topline Although the Blue Moon officially becomes full in the early hours of Sunday, May 31, the key…