NASA Announces the Team who'll be Studying UFO Data. It's a Pretty Impressive List

By Matthew Williams - October 28, 2022 04:06 PM UTC | Astrobiology

NASA just announced the members of the independent study team that will recommend how the study of UAP can help the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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JWST Sees the Same Galaxy From Three Different Angles Thanks to a Gravitational Lens

By Brian Koberlein - October 28, 2022 03:33 PM UTC | Extragalactic

The Webb Telescope can see distant galaxies incredibly well, even when they are gravitationally lensed by galactic clusters.

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NASA is Mapping Giant Clouds of Methane Released by "Super-Emitters" Across the World

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 27, 2022 11:21 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Here are Four Ways JWST Could Detect Alien Life

By Matthew Williams - October 27, 2022 07:29 PM UTC | Astrobiology

There are many ways that the James Webb Space Telescope could search for life. Here are four promising ones.

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Earth's Hardiest Bacteria Could Survive Hundreds of Millions of Years Just Under the Surface of Mars

By Evan Gough - October 27, 2022 07:19 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Dwarf Planet Haumea is one of the Stranger Objects in the Solar System. How did it get That way?

By Andy Tomaswick - October 27, 2022 03:47 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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How to See the Bigger Picture From NASA's Webb Space Telescope

By Alan Boyle - October 27, 2022 12:00 PM UTC | Telescopes

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Webb Can Detect Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs, And Maybe Even See Signs of Life

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - October 26, 2022 09:40 PM UTC | Exoplanets

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How Dangerous are Nearby Supernovae to Life on Earth?

By Evan Gough - October 26, 2022 04:45 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Clearing the Air on a Trip to Mars: the NASA Particle Partition Challenge!

By Matthew Williams - October 26, 2022 02:34 PM UTC | Space Exploration

With $45,000 in prizes, NASA's Particle Partition Challenge is looking for innovative ideas on how to maintain breathable atmospheres for astronauts far from Earth.

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Occultation Chasers Nab the Shadow of Didymos, Post DART Impact

By David Dickinson - October 26, 2022 10:20 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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The Smallest, Lightest Neutron Star Ever Seen Could be a "Strange Star"

By Brian Koberlein - October 26, 2022 10:08 AM UTC | Stars

A neutron star lighter than the Sun could be a strange matter star.

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Lucy Took This Picture of Earth as it was Making its Gravity Assist Maneuver

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2022 08:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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Hubble Looks at Newly Forming Stars in a Stellar Nursery

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - October 25, 2022 05:00 PM UTC | Stars

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Samples Returned From Mars Will be Protected by a Micrometeorite Shield

By Matthew Williams - October 25, 2022 04:33 PM UTC | Planetary Science

NASA engineers are developing and testing a shielding system to protect the Mars Sample Return mission from micormeterites and space debris,

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Maybe We Don't See Aliens Because Nobody Wants to Come Here

By Evan Gough - October 25, 2022 04:09 PM UTC | Astrobiology

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Webb and Hubble Peer Into the Wreckage of a Galactic Collision

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2022 03:42 PM UTC | Extragalactic

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The New Ariane 6 Heavy Lift Rocket is Finally on the Launch Pad, But Won't Liftoff Until Late 2023

By Nancy Atkinson - October 25, 2022 08:54 AM UTC | Space Exploration

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Lucy Zipped Past Earth to get a Gravitational Assist Towards Jupiter's Trojans

By Andy Tomaswick - October 24, 2022 08:31 PM UTC | Planetary Science

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NASA Provides a Timelapse Movie Showing How the Universe Changed Over 12 Years

By Evan Gough - October 24, 2022 02:01 PM UTC | Cosmology

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