Category: 7. Science

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun a new phase in the search for life beyond Earth. It has turned its golden mirrors toward the compact TRAPPIST-1 system.

JWST has started to study small exoplanets that orbit M dwarf stars using…

Three astronauts will head back to Earth from the International Space Station tonight (Dec. 8), and you can watch their homecoming live.

NASA’s Jonny Kim and Sergey…

A subtle change in how climate risk is communicated—mentioning a person’s local area—can significantly increase attention to disaster preparedness messages, according to a new study by researchers at the Stockholm School of…

Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the “hobbit” — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago because declining rainfall levels reduced the prey available for hunting. This may have forced them to migrate to areas…

By the time the Artemis II Orion spacecraft launches to the Moon next year, its many components will already have traveled thousands of miles and moved across multiple facilities before coming together at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Branelle…

The duration of a total solar eclipse always varies. In April 2024, the eclipse that crossed North America lasted 4 minutes and 28 seconds. By contrast, the one that will reach Spain in August 2026 will only last 1 minute and 43 seconds. In less…

A brand new image of comet 3I/ATLAS has been captured by a European spacecraft on its way to Jupiter.

3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet, meaning it originated in another corner of the Galaxy, far beyond our Solar System.

It’s one of only three…