NASA turned the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to a world 48 light-years away, a type of planet called a "mini-Neptune" that's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Astronomers found the world well over a decade ago, in 2009, but didn't have an instrument capable of peering...
3D printed shelter is one of five finalists in an international competition to design and build a habitat for a crew of four astronauts on a mission to Mars. AI SpaceFactory formulated their own material – a “Martian polymer” that can be made from matter found or grown on the planet. ...
Thousand-mile-per-hour winds are blowing a hail of tiny quartz crystals through the silicate-enhanced, scorching hot atmosphere of a distant gas giant planet called WASP-17b, theJames Webb Space Telescope(JWST) has found. "We knew from Hubble [Space Telescope] observations that there must be ...
a job that on its own would take the better part of a year even with an exceptional amount of funding. Of course, getting money was an easier task when a planet ending catastrophe would annihilate us within the decade.
“It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image,” de Pater said. The planet's rings and moons are also highlighted in the relea...
正文:Asteroid 2024 YR4 has firmly grabbed the world's attention, with an approximately 2% chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. NASA has sounded the alarm, stating that its size is sufficient to cause local damage, thus triggering the international warning system established to safeguard our ...
Under the plan announced Wednesday, NASA’s Perseverance rover will do double duty and transport the cache to the rocket that will launch them off the red planet a decade from now. Perseverance already has gathered 11 samples with more rock drilling planned. The most recent sample, a...
Officials said the telescope was found to be safe at this point with “no visible signs of damage.” As it turned out the culprit of the sensor anomaly was the many “tie-down … restraint mechanisms ” that hold the telescope in place. “After a thorough investigation, the James Webb ...
NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a distraction."
In all likelihood, asteroid 2024 YR4 will slip silently past the Earth. Based on the data we have so far, there’s an estimated chance of only 2.1% to 2.3% that it will collide with the planet on December 22nd, 2032. Under normal circumstances, if somebody told you there was a roughl...