Some TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets could have stable atmospheres

View larger. | Artist’s concept of the 7 Earth-sized rocky TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets (distances not to scale).…

When your brain inverts the image

This is Victoria Crater on Mars. It’s 2 images of the same crater, with one of…

Voyager 1 is Forced to Rely on its Low Power Radio

Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then!…

The Aftermath of a Neutron Star Collision Resembles the Conditions in the Early Universe

Neutron stars are extraordinarily dense objects, the densest in the Universe. They pack a lot of…

Webb Confirms a Longstanding Galaxy Model

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight…

New View of Venus Reveals Previously Hidden Impact Craters

Think of the Moon and most people will imagine a barren world pockmarked with craters. The…

Famous disk around Vega shows no sign of planets

This is a Webb Space Telescope image of the nearly 100-billion-mile-diameter (160-billion-km) disk of dust and…

Famous disk around Vega shows no sign of planets

A Webb Space Telescope image of the nearly 100-billion-mile-diameter (160 billion km) disk of dust and…

Launch Time and Launch window of X-band defense communication satellite-3 aboard the 4th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F4) [Rescheduled]

Launch Time and Launch window of X-band defense communication satellite-3 aboard the 4th H3 Launch Vehicle…

Multimode Propulsion Could Revolutionize How We Launch Things to Space

In a few years, as part of the Artemis Program, NASA will send the “first woman…