Space Science

How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future..

Imagine reaching up to a tree branch and plucking an apple that’s unusually tall and narrow — a variety called Kandil Snap, native to the Black Sea region. In an adjacent arboreal row, 11 trees to the north, you’ll find the equally exotic..

Artemis I Moon Rocket Departs Launch Pad 39B Ahead of Hurricane Ian – Artemis..

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as teams configure systems for rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, Monday, Sept..

NASA Smashes Into an Asteroid, Completing a Mission to Save a Future Day..

Laurel, Md. — It’s the plot point for more than one Hollywood blockbuster: A rogue asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, threatening tsunamis, mass destruction and the death of every human being on the planet. Humanity has one shot to save itself ..

Watch NASA’s DART Mission to Crash Into an Asteroid and Defend the Earth..

Sept. 26, 2022, 4:01 pm ET Sept. 26, 2022, 4:01 pm ETThe DART mission launching from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in November 2021.Credit…Bill Ingalls/NASA NASA is not spending $324 million to crash a spacecraft just for fun. ..

More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’..

In the past decade, the number of people who identify as transgender has grown significantly, especially among young Americans. Around 700,000 people under 25 identified as transgender in 2020, according to the Williams Institute, a research center ..

NASA Is About to Crash Into an Asteroid. Here’s How to Watch..

An asteroid minding its own business not too far from Earth is about to get knocked about by a visitor from our planet. On Monday, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, is set to collide with Dimorphos, a small asteroid ..

Arbitration Has Come to Senior Living. You Don’t Have to Sign Up..

What the Jinks family wanted was to sue the memory care facility where their father, Charles, was attacked by another resident. It happened in October 2020, after Hurricane Laura forced his hasty evacuation from a similar facility in Louisiana. His ..

More Than 700 Children Have Died in a Measles Outbreak in Zimbabwe..

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe — A measles outbreak has killed more than 700 children and infected thousands of others across Zimbabwe, highlighting the risks of faltering childhood immunization campaigns around the globe. As of Sept. 6, the country’s ..

Shy Raccoons Are Better Learners Than Bold Ones, Study Finds..

“This is perhaps the first step towards domestication,” said Benjamin Geffroy, a biologist at the University of Montpellier in France. “Now we need to know more about what comes first, docility or cognitive abilities.” Some research suggests the ..

Maarten Schmidt, First Astronomer to Identify a Quasar, Dies at 92..

Maarten Schmidt, who in 1963 became the first astronomer to identify a quasar, a small, intensely bright object several billion light years away, and in the process upended standard descriptions of the universe and revolutionized ideas about its ..

Why Omicron Might Stick Around..

Where is Pi? Last year, the World Health Organization began assigning Greek letters to worrying new variants of the coronavirus. The organization started with Alpha and swiftly worked its way through the Greek alphabet in the months that followed. ..

Counting the World’s Ants Requires a Lot of Zeros..

Right now, ants are scurrying around every continent except Antarctica, doing the hard work of engineering ecosystems. They spread seeds, churn up soil and speed up decomposition. They forage and hunt and get eaten. You may not know how much you rely..

Neptune and Its Rings Come Into Focus With Webb Telescope..

No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew past on its way out of the solar system. Neptune, which is four times as wide as Earth, is the most distant planet of our solar system. Voyager 2’s observations ..

Senate Ratifies Pact to Curb a Broad Category of Potent Greenhouse Gases..

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Wednesday to approve an international climate treaty for the first time in 30 years, agreeing in a rare bipartisan deal to phase out of the use of planet-warming industrial chemicals commonly found in refrigerators ..

New System Aims to Save Whales Near San Francisco From Ship Collisions..

THE PACIFIC OCEAN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO — Fran washed ashore in August, some 25 miles south of the Golden Gate Bridge. The beloved and much-photographed female humpback whale had a broken neck, most likely the result of being hit by a ship. This latest ..

The Settings That Make Smartphones Easier for Everyone to Use..

Smartphones have gradually become more useful for people with a range of physical abilities, thanks to tools like screen readers and adjustable text sizes. With the recent release of Apple’s iOS 16 and Google’s Android 13 software, even ..

The ‘Alien Goldfish’ Finds a Home..

Closer examination of Typhloesus fossils suggests that the organism, which swam 330 million years ago, was similar to modern sea slugs..

How to Hunt Like an Octopus..

In its small glass aquarium, an octopus is coiled placidly in its den. Then, a crab falls into the tank. The octopus scrambles to fling itself over the crab, looking less like a finely honed killing machine than a toddler who’s spotted a cookie..

The Godwit’s Long, Long Nonstop Journey..

Tens of thousands of bar-tailed godwits are taking advantage of favorable winds this month and next for their annual migration from the mud flats and muskeg of southern Alaska, south across the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, to the beaches of New..

Valery Polyakov, Who Took the Longest Journey in Space, Dies at 80..

Dr. Valery Polyakov, a physician and astronaut who held the world record for consecutive days spent in outer space, 437, has died. He was 80. Russia’s space agency announced the death without specifying when or where it occurred or the cause. ..

This Acrobatic Hunting Trick Is Straight Out of the Spider-Verse..

Spiders have no shortage of strategies to capture their prey. Some hunt in packs, others set traps and some even mimic the pheromones of their prey’s mate. But even so, less than 1 percent of spider species go after ants. The six-legged insects..

A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke..

But as the political climate around Covid-19 grew heated, and as some of Dr. Becher’s patients and neighbors began to dismiss the science, she became frustrated, then angry. She began to run more, sometimes twice a day, for hours at a time, &#..

A Rural Doctor Gave Her All. Then Her Heart Broke..

But as the political climate around Covid-19 grew heated, and as some of Dr. Becher’s patients and neighbors began to dismiss the science, she became frustrated, then angry. She began to run more, sometimes twice a day, for hours at a time, &#..

China’s Discovery of Lunar Mineral Could Add to Fuller View of the Moon..

Chinese scientists recently announced their discovery of a new lunar mineral among samples collected from the moon during a mission two years ago, adding to the body of knowledge of the Earth’s satellite that had been the focus of earlier space..

How to Change Minds? A Study Makes the Case for Talking It Out..

Co-workers stuck on a Zoom call, deliberating a new strategy for a crucial project. Roommates at the kitchen table, arguing about how to split utility bills fairly. Neighbors at a city meeting, debating how to pay for street repairs. We’ve all ..

In ‘Cancer Alley,’ Judge Blocks Huge Petrochemical Plant..

Louisiana activists battling to block an enormous plastics plant in a corridor so dense with industrial refineries it is known as Cancer Alley won a legal victory this week when a judge canceled the company’s air permits. In a sharply worded ..

Life on Mars? This Could Be the Place NASA’s Rover Helps Us Find It..

Exploring an ancient river delta in a crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected samples of two rocks that are chalk-full of carbon-based molecules that could be remnants of ancient life. The rocks formed several billion years ago ..

The Search for Intelligent Life Is About to Get a Lot More Interesting..

The Webb telescope can look near as well as far. During its first year, about 7 percent of its time will be spent observing our own solar system, according to Heidi B. Hammel, an interdisciplinary scientist who worked on the telescope’s ..

Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company..

A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the eccentric rock climber who became a reluctant billionaire with his unconventional spin on capitalism, has given the company away. Rather than selling the company ..

Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show..

Documents obtained by Congressional investigators show that oil industry executives privately downplayed their companies’ own public messages about efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and weakened industry-wide commitments to push for ..

Susan L. Solomon, Crusader for Stem Cell Research, Dies at 71..

Susan L. Solomon, whose frustration over lags in finding a cure for her teenage son’s Type 1 diabetes prompted her to establish what became a leading independent stem cell research laboratory, died on Sept. 8 at her home in Amagansett, NY She ..

When the Queen Died, Someone Had to Tell the Bees..

LONDON — As news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II reverberated through the world, a headline over the weekend puzzled many on social media: The Daily Mail’s exclusive that the “royal beekeeper has informed the Queen’s bees that the ..

To Search for a Near-Extinct Snail, Tread Lightly..

Monitoring the last wild Chittenango ovate amber snails, scientists tiptoe through a waterfall spray zone the size of a living room..

How a Garbage-Bin War Schools Humans and Birds..

Forget the space race. In Sydney, Australia, the innovation arms race is real. It’s between humans and sulfur-crested cockatoos, and the battle is over the trash. The cockatoos, which are native to Australia and frequent the suburbs, were ..

Cracking the Case of the Giant Fern Genome..

Humans, like many complex organisms, have large genomes, which contain the codes for our lives. Want to explain your dark hair, thin bones and existential dread? Look to your 46 chromosomes and three billion nucleotide base pairs. But those numbers ..

‘Marte es un planeta, pero no sabemos cómo funciona’: la NASA quiere un laboratorio para evitar una plaga marciana..

Lo mejor que pudo hacer el Tiger Team RAMA fue observar qué han hecho las instalaciones con funciones de contención y limpieza para mantenerse así y no perder la esperanza de lograr combinarlas de la mejor manera posible. En de los laboratorios BSL-4..

Teams Replace Seals on Artemis I Moon Rocket, Prepare for Tanking Test..

 Good News is coming in for Artemis-I launch mission. Engineers have replaced the seals associated with the hydrogen leak detected during the Artemis I launch attempt on Sept. 3. The teams will inspect the new seals over the weekend and assess ..

Vice President Kamala Harris Calls International Space Station Astronauts..

Today in celebration of Black History Month, NASA astronaut Victor Glover welcomed Vice President Kamala Harris to the International Space Station for a virtual chat. In the video recorded Feb. 24 and shared Saturday, the conversation ranged from the..

Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us..

Then, having insisted he doesn’t yet know what the last book will be since it’s not done, he hurries on: It’s about “the end of life, the extension of life, metabolism, what happens as we near the end and how we can potentially ..

NASA to Host National Space Council Meeting at Johnson Space Center..

NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a meeting of the National Space Council at 2:20 p.m. EDT (1:20 p.m. CDT) Friday, Sept. 9. Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the event, and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will deliver remarks. The..

Will Artemis-I ever launch..

The second attempt to launch the Artemis-1 mission to the Moon was scrubbed on Saturday. The current launch window closes on Tuesday. Some sources leaks told that, Artemis-1 mission to Moon unlikely to launch soon. NASA is not going to try to launch ..

Failure to Slow Warming Will Set Off Climate ‘Tipping Points,’ Scientists Say..

Failure to limit global warming to the targets set by international accords will most likely set off several climate “tipping points,” a team of scientists said on Thursday, with irreversible effects including the collapse of the Greenland and West ..

What Makes Your Brain Different From a Neanderthal’s..

Scientists have discovered a glitch in our DNA that may have helped set the minds of our ancestors apart from those of Neanderthals and other extinct relatives. The mutation, which arose in the past few hundred thousand years, spurs the development ..

NASA Could Retry Moon Rocket Launch in Late September..

After replacing leaky seals that halted a launch attempt of its new moon rocket last week, NASA said on Thursday that it hoped to try again later this month. At a telephone news conference on Thursday, NASA officials announced two potential launch ..

FDA OKs Daxxify, an Anti-Wrinkle Drug and Botox Competitor..

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug that reduced the appearance of facial wrinkles for about six months, spurring competition in a market that for decades has been dominated by Botox. Revance Therapeutics, the maker of the new ..

How Tree Rings Helped Identify a Rhode Island Whaler Lost at Sea..

A whaling ship known as the Dolphin left the shores of Rhode Island in 1858 for its last voyage, never to return to port again. The 42-person crew was rescued the following year from the waters of the southern Atlantic Ocean by an Argentine mariner, ..

Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch..

Our bodies are home to hundreds or thousands of species of microbes — nobody is sure quite how many. That’s just one of many mysteries about the so-called human microbiome. Our inner ecosystem fends off pathogens, helps digest food and may even..

This Jellyfish Can Live Forever. Its Genes May Tell Us How..

Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. These miniature jellyfish, known as Turritopsis dohrnii, wave and grasp with their pale tentacles, bringing plankton to their ..

Frank Drake, Who Led Search for Life on Other Planets, Dies at 92..

It was at Green Bank that Dr. Drake, who had planned the meeting, derived his famous equation as a way of organizing the agenda. It consists of seven factors, which range over all human astronomical knowledge and aspiration. Some are strictly ..

The Hunt for Big Hail..

In August, a couple of days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a cattle rancher in Vivian, SD, went to the post office, where he received some bad news. His world record had been broken, the clerk told him. That is, the hailstone Mr. Scott ..

Humpback Whales Pass Their Songs Across Oceans..

One of the most remarkable things about our species is how fast human culture can change. New words can spread from continent to continent, while technologies such as cellphones and drones change the way people live around the world. It turns out ..

The Curious Hole in My Head..

I barreled into the world — a precipitous birth, the doctors called it — at a New York City hospital in the dead of night. In my first few hours of life, after six bouts of halted breathing, the doctors hastened me to the neonatal intensive care unit..

NASA Scrubbed Another Moon Launch. It May Not Be the Last Time..

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Before the first launch attempt of the Artemis I mission last Monday, Wayne Hale, a former program manager of NASA’s space shuttle program, shared a note of caution on Twitter that the day could end up disappointing..

NASA Calls Off Launch of Artemis Moon Rocket for a 2nd Time..

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — For the second time in a week, NASA officials on Saturday called off the test launch of a rocket that is to one day carry astronauts to the moon. It was another setback for a signature national spaceflight program, though..

Artemis launch: Facts about Vehicle Assembly Building..

Artemis launch – Vehicle Assembly Building NASA • One of the largest buildings in the world by area, the VAB covers eight acres and is 525 feet (160 meters) tall and 518 feet (158 meters) wide.• At 130,130,415 cubic feet (3,684,883 cubic meters..

Artemis missions : Space Communication and Navigation Systems..

Artemis missions will rely on NASA’s comprehensive communications network services for journeys to lunar orbit. NASA’s worldwide network infrastructure will provide seamless communications, with different service levels as Orion leaves Earth, orbits ..

NASA Scrubbed Another Moon Launch. It May Not Be the Last Time..

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Before the first launch attempt of the Artemis I mission last Monday, Wayne Hale, a former program manager of NASA’s space shuttle program, shared a note of caution on Twitter that the day could end up disappointing..

Artemis Launch..

Artemis I: All eyes will be on the historic Launch Complex 39B when the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lift off for the first time from NASA’s modernized Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Artemis I will be the first in..

Artemis launch : NASA officials hold news briefing on next attempt at ground-breaking Artemis launch..

NASA officials will hold a news briefing Friday ahead of their next attempt to launch of its new moon rocket. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. ET. Watch in the player above. The first attempt on Monday was thwarted by engine trouble. The ..

How and When to Watch NASA’s Giant Rocket Launch to the Moon..

A technical hiccup kept NASA’s giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System, from getting off the launchpad on Monday. So NASA will try again on Saturday, hopeful that its engineers have resolved the issue. Here’s what you need to know about the second..

How and When to Watch NASA’s Giant Rocket Launch to the Moon..

A technical hiccup kept NASA’s giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System, from getting off the launchpad on Monday. So NASA will try again on Saturday, hopeful that its engineers have resolved the issue. Here’s what you need to know ..

Dangerous Sunspot With Major Solar Flare Potential Is Pointing at Earth..

The large sunspot on the surface of the sun has been disconcertingly quiet this week, leading some astronomers to worry that a big solar flare may be building. “Could it be the calm before the storm?” former NASA astronomer Dr. Tony Phillips writes ..

How the Picture of Top Secret Folders at Mar-a-Lago Came About..

The Justice Department used 35 pages of type in a court filing on Tuesday to provide new details of its investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of hundreds of classified documents that were taken from the White House at ..

When Fetterman Wasn’t Ready to Debate After a Stroke, Oz Pounced..

It began with a spat over crudités. It has escalated into one Senate hopeful who is openly mocking another’s health after a stroke. Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania, has taunted his Democratic rival, Lt. Gov. ..

To Prevent a Martian Plague, NASA Needs to Build a Very Special Lab..

The potential for tardiness presented “significant programmatic risk” to the Mars Sample Return, the team determined. After all, the return is likely to be more complicated, in regards to paperwork, than that of purely terrestrial projects. NASA ..

NASA Plans to Retry Its Moon Rocket Launch on Saturday..

For now, NASA will press ahead with preparations for a second launch attempt on Saturday of its new moon rocket, with agency officials saying on Tuesday that they hoped to work around an engine problem encountered during the first attempt on Monday. ..

NASA, and Space Fans, Await Decision on Next Chance to Launch Artemis Moon Rocket..

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Thousands of people had packed the beaches, roadsides, rooftops and waterways. Some even camped overnight in hopes of seeing NASA’s giant new moon rocket launch for the first time, rising upward with a thunderous ..

Live Updates: NASA Readies Artemis Moon Rocket for Launch..

Aug. 29, 2022, 5:00 am ET Aug. 29, 2022, 5:00 am ETThe Orion capsule at NASA’s space environments simulation facility at Plum Brook Station.Credit…Marvin Smith/NASA For astronauts to get to the moon, they need a big rocket, and the Space ..

Why NASA Is Going Back to the Moon..

“We are going.” That is the catch phrase that NASA is using in the lead-up to the debut flight of its new moon rocket, which could launch as early as Monday at 8:33 a.m. Eastern time. It is a phrase repeated by agency officials, added as ..

How and When to Watch NASA’s Giant Rocket Launch to the Moon..

Before NASA can send astronauts back to the moon, it needs a successful test flight of the Space Launch System, a giant rocket built for the agency with lunar missions in mind. On Monday, we’ll get to see the first attempt at launching this ..

NASA’s Big Rocket Reaches Launchpad. Next Stop: The Moon..

What are the Space Launch System and Orion, and why are they important? The Space Launch System and Orion are two of the core components of NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon in the coming years. Getting there requires..

Ashes of Nichelle Nichols Are Set for Journey to Deep Space..

The ashes of Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura in the original “Star Trek” television series and died in July, will be launched into space later this year. Celestis, a private spaceflight company that works with NASA, will ..

How the Webb Telescope Expanded My Universe..

I have a confession to make: I underestimated the James Webb Space Telescope. For years, as NASA struggled to build the designated successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, I came to think of the Webb as a problem child, ever-delayed, swallowing ..

The Juicy Secrets of Stars That Eat Their Planets..

The sun has nourished life on Earth, but it will not be so hospitable forever. Five billion years into the future, our solar system’s star will grow so immense that Mercury, Venus and, possibly, Earth, will be swallowed whole. It may seem like ..

African Crater Adds an Asteroid Strike to the Late Dinosaur Era..

This impact event, drastic though it was, was no Chicxulub. It was less a destroyer of worlds and more of a regional ruiner. But the epic tsunamis it spawned “could potentially affect life on multiple continents,” said Bill Bottke, a meteor impact ..

A Watermark, and ‘Spidey Sense,’ Unmask a Forged Galileo Treasure..

Palmer, at the Morgan Library, said in an interview that he accepted Wilding’s findings that the 1607 letter was not a genuine Galileo, and that the library would update its catalog to note that it was “formerly attributed to Galileo.” The ..

How to View the Last Supermoon of the Year..

Stargazers, take note: The full moon on Thursday night will be slightly larger and more vibrant than usual. It’s also the last supermoon of the year, according to NASA. The Sturgeon Moon — according to a 1930s edition of the Maine Farmer’..

How to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower Peak in Night Skies..

Thursday night into Friday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch a meteor shower as a multitude of flares potentially burst in the darkness. Meteor showers occur when our planet runs into ..

Astronomers May Have Found the Galaxy’s Youngest Planet..

Over the last 30 years, astronomers have found more than 5,000 exoplanets, an eclectic menagerie of worlds far from our stellar neighborhood. The latest may be a mere infant. In the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists on Tuesday ..

South Korea Is Scouting Out the Moon, With More Missions to Come..

South Korea set off for the moon on Thursday. But it doesn’t want to stop there. “We are also considering using the moon as an outpost for space exploration,” Kwon Hyun-joon, director general of space and nuclear energy at South Korea’s ..

A Large Object Landed on His Sheep Farm. It Came From Space..

Mick Miners was herding sheep on a four-wheeler last week when he stumbled upon a pointy black object that looked more than nine feet tall. It reminded him of either a burned tree or a piece of farm machinery. “Pretty frightening, actually,” Mr. ..

South Korea’s First Moon Launch: How to Watch..

Joining the list of nations with ambitious plans in space, South Korea is aiming for the moon on Thursday. Its first lunar spacecraft, named Danuri, is carrying scientific payload that will study the moon’s magnetic field, measure quantities of..

The Cartwheel Galaxy Is the Webb Telescope’s Latest Cosmic Snapshot..

Scientists on Tuesday published the latest images from NASA’s triumphant James Webb Space Telescope. The newest release documents the Cartwheel galaxy, which is about 500 million light-years from our planet and is aptly named for its wheel-like..

An Uncontrolled Chinese Rocket Body Is Returning From Space. Where Will It Land..

Construction of China’s Tiangong space station continued smoothly this week with the launch and docking of Wentian, a laboratory module. The installation of the lab advances the progress of a second outpost in orbit where humanity is able to ..

Watch the Southern Delta Aquariid Meteor Shower Peak in Night Skies..

Friday night into Saturday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch a meteor shower as a multitude of flares potentially burst in the darkness. Meteor showers occur when our planet runs into ..

NASA Will Send More Helicopters to Mars..

The first helicopter that NASA sent to Mars worked so well that it is sending two more. The helicopters are similar to Ingenuity, the “Marscopter” that accompanied NASA’s Perseverance rover to Mars. But they’ll have the added ..

Buzz Aldrin’s Space Memorabilia Sells for More Than $8 Million..

A white, Teflon-coated jacket worn by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 sold for $2.7 million at a Sotheby’s auction on Tuesday, fetching the highest price among dozens of pieces of rare memorabilia ..

Russia Says It Will Quit the International Space Station After 2024..

The new head of Russia’s space agency announced on Tuesday that Russia will leave the International Space Station after its current commitment expires at the end of 2024. “The decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made,”..

Heads Up, Again: China Set to Launch Space Station Module With Giant Rocket..

Another big Chinese rocket is about to go up on Sunday, and once again, no one knows where or when it will come down. It will be a replay of two earlier launches of the same rocket, the Long March 5B, which is one of the largest currently in use and ..

Two Companies Aim to Beat SpaceX to Mars With ‘Audacious’ Landing..

Mr. Mueller said the size and shape of the capsule would be the same as that used for the InSight mission. “It’s like using the same type of heat shield materials, exact same parachute design,” he said. “So we’re just using what NASA has ..

In Space, US-Russian Cooperation Finds a Way Forward..

When SpaceX next launches a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station, one of the astronauts aboard will be Russian. NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced on Friday that they had reached an agreement that would give Russian..

NASA Shows Webb’s View of Something Closer to Home: Jupiter..

The new James Webb Space Telescope can capture photographs not only of galaxies across the universe, but also of objects in our celestial backyard. NASA on Thursday released images of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, which is ..

NASA Shows Webb’s View of Something Closer to Home: Jupiter..

The new James Webb Space Telescope can capture photographs not only of galaxies across the universe, but also of objects in our celestial backyard. NASA on Thursday released images of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, which is ..

Five Things Learned From the Webb Telescope’s First Images..

This article is based on earlier reporting by Kenneth Chang, Dennis Overbye, Joshua Sokol and Carl Zimmer. NASA on Tuesday released five images from the early work of the James Webb Space Telescope. The pictures highlighted the great potential of the..

Webb Telescope Revealed a New Vision of an Ancient Universe..

The universe was born in darkness 13.8 billion years ago, and even after the first stars and galaxies blazed into existence a few hundred million years later, these too stayed dark. Their brilliant light, stretched by time and the expanding cosmos, ..

The Lonely Work of Picking the Universe’s Best Astronomy Pictures..

Even reaching this point had taken decades of planning, threatened cancellations, delays upon delays, a pandemic and a round of harrowing reverse origami that was needed to unfold the telescope in deep space without breaking it. In Baltimore, this ..

James Webb Space Telescope: NASA to Share First Set of Images..

July 12, 2022, 7:30 am ET July 12, 2022, 7:30 am ETThe Webb telescope’s image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 includes thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in infrared. The light from SMACS 0723 in this image is ..

He Fixed NASA’s Giant Space Telescope, Reluctantly..

In 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope, the beleaguered project to build an instrument that could gaze back to the earliest stars in the universe, appeared to be going off the rails. Again. The pieces of the telescope and its instruments were ..

Biden to Show James Webb Space Telescope’s First Image: How to Watch..

The largest space telescope ever built is ready to show us what it’s been looking at for the past six months. But before NASA gives the world a slide show from the James Webb Space Telescope’s early cosmic sightseeing, the White House ..

Goose Bumps Build for the Webb’s First Snapshots of the Universe..

On Tuesday morning, NASA will show off the first pictures and data from the new James Webb Space Telescope. That will bring to an end some 30 years and $10 billion of planning, building, testing and innovating, followed by 6 months of terror, tension..