JWST’s revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA’s Spitzer first, it wouldn’t have been possible.
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Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
Considering the astronomical occupational risks, life insurance was prohibitively expensive for the first NASA astronauts.
NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
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The asteroid is expected to come within 140,000 miles of Earth — well inside the moon’s orbit.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
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Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan enlightens listeners with lessons from space to ignite a sense of purpose to unlock potential, navigate change, and create opportunity.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
This beautiful JWST image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 has been called a “prelude to a supernova” by NASA. That might be entirely wrong.
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
This technological feat changes our cosmic history.
Yes, NASA’s Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean anything in the search for life.
Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.
See the 3 biggest space stories from October 16-22, 2023.
Spaceguard shows that we can manage risks to the extinction of humanity — if only we put our mind to it.
The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.
It’s not about fairness. It’s about using every possible advantage.
The DART mission tested whether it’s possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
You can’t throw a DART at everything in space.
The surface of asteroid Bennu is more like a plastic ball pit than the Moon.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, finding a bland, featureless world. Now, in 2023, JWST’s sights are similar. There’s a reason for that.