Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to the… [+3982 chars]...
Read moreIts often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more remote the possibility of inhabiting them seems. Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in terms … [+2966 chars]...
Read moreCheck out the vibrant first photo from PUNCH, a NASA mission that is hitting the ground running with some neat shots of the Sun. PUNCHshort for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliospherelau… [+2726 chars]...
Read moreThe Webb Space Telescope has given us our first glimpse of Neptune glowing with bright auroras, a visually stunning phenomenon that has long evaded scientists studying the ice giant. Using Webb’s ne… [+2769 chars]...
Read moreNASAs Lucy spacecraft just pulled off its second asteroid flyby and imaged a frankly tasty-looking rock: a peanut-shaped asteroid named Donaldjohanson. The oblong asteroid is a fragment of a long-de… [+2145 chars]...
Read moreSaturns moon Titan is often pegged as one of the worlds in our solar system where life could theoretically exist. A new analysis concludes that is indeed possible, albeit incredibly unlikely. Titan … [+3350 chars]...
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