“Excessive secrecy has led to grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel and the public — all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.” UFOs came to Washington again today. The U.S. House of
“The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars.” The Roman Coronagraph is integrated with the Instrument Carrier for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in a clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight
Early tests of remotely operating robotics with an eye to employing them on the moon have been promising. Future moon rovers could be teleoperated from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter) Teleoperated rovers could soon be working on the moon, with
‘We believe that dusty Martian ice exposures in the mid-latitudes represent the most easily accessible places to search for Martian life today.’ Images of the Red Planet taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.) The conditions needed
“Discovering something new is always a thrill for a scientist.” An illustration of the star cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud ejecting runaway stars (Image credit: Danielle Futselaar, James Webb Space Telescope/NIRCam – NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI.) Using Europe’s
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to probe some of the deepest regions of our universe. Messier 106, also known as NGC 4258, is a nearby spiral galaxy that resides roughly 23 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. (Image
“Overall, the report is full of bad news that is good news.” Illustration of debris in orbit around Earth. (Image credit: Getty Images) Space, just beyond the reach of Earth’s atmosphere, is kind of like a teenager’s bedroom: Even when you
“On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface.” NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock on Mars that may have once hosted microbial life. The rock, nicknamed
The sun is the star of the show. The heliosphere blocks many cosmic rays, shown as bright streaks in this animated image, from reaching the planets of our solar system. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab) This article
We analyzed what’s visible in the video. Here’s a little walkthrough. A snaking scar on Mars. (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin) New images published by the European Space Agency have captured a 600-kilometer-long (373-mile-long) snaking scar on Mars’ surface in greater detail than ever