NASA's Report Details a Dark Time in American History but Finds no Direct Evidence That Webb Fired People for Their Sexual Orientation

By Matthew Williams - November 23, 2022 02:58 PM UTC | Site News

NASA has released its James Webb History Report, which explains why they are not changing the name of their flagship observatory.

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JWST Detects Signs of Active Chemistry and Clouds in the Atmosphere of Exoplanet WASP-39 b

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 23, 2022 01:15 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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The Milky Way's Stellar Halo Isn't a Sphere After All

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 22, 2022 11:06 PM UTC | Milky Way

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Volcanoes are the worst. They've caused extinctions on Earth, and probably killed Venus

By Evan Gough - November 22, 2022 02:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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A Mission to Venus Could Sample its Atmosphere Directly, Searching for Life

By Andy Tomaswick - November 22, 2022 10:34 AM UTC | Astrobiology

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Hubble Sees a Dense Cloud of Gas and Dust That's About to Become a Star

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 21, 2022 10:07 PM UTC | Stars

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Artemis I has Completed its First Flyby of the Moon

By Nancy Atkinson - November 21, 2022 07:23 PM UTC | Missions

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Einstein's Predictions for Gravity Have Been Tested at the Largest Possible Scale

By Matthew Williams - November 21, 2022 05:43 PM UTC | Physics

A new study by an international team indicates that either Einstein was wrong, or something else has been driving cosmic expansion from the beginning.

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Scroll Through the Universe with This Cool Interactive Map

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - November 20, 2022 08:00 PM UTC | Cosmology

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Many Next-Generation Telescopes are Carried on Balloons. Here's What the Next Decade Holds in Balloon Astronomy

By Allen Versfeld - November 20, 2022 03:44 PM UTC | Telescopes

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Artemis 1 Launch, Secret Space Plane, JWST Protection Plan

By kuingul-gmail - November 19, 2022 05:04 PM UTC | Missions

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Perseverance has Found a Nice Patch of Sandstone on Mars

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - November 18, 2022 03:52 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Andromeda Contains the Remnants of a Recent "Feeding Event"

By Evan Gough - November 18, 2022 02:34 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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BlueWalker-3 Unfolds, Brightens One-Hundredfold

By David Dickinson - November 18, 2022 10:36 AM UTC | Site News

After months of waiting, we're getting our first good looks at a fully deployed BlueWalker-3 this coming weekend.

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There's a Cloud of Space Debris Around Earth. Here's how we Could get a Better Picture of it

By Andy Tomaswick - November 17, 2022 10:18 PM UTC | Space Policy

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JAXA's Ambitious Mission to Phobos Will Even Have European-Built Rover

By Evan Gough - November 17, 2022 04:53 PM UTC | Missions

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The Latest JWST Image Shows a Star in the Earliest Stage of Formation

By Evan Gough - November 17, 2022 01:21 PM UTC | Stars

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NASA has a Plan to Minimize Future Micrometeoroid Impacts on JWST

By Nancy Atkinson - November 17, 2022 11:54 AM UTC | Missions

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Are We in for a Leonid Outburst Friday Night?

By David Dickinson - November 17, 2022 10:41 AM UTC | Observing

The November Leonid meteors may produce a surprise outburst this weekend.

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Europe is Building a Communications Network Around the Moon

By Andy Tomaswick - November 17, 2022 12:03 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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