On Christmas Day, 2021, an Ariane 5 rocket leaped from its launch pad in French Guiana. Perched on the rocket’s nose was the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The JWST was designed to perform several tasks, but one of the most important was to study the first stars and galaxies to come into existence. The telescope has performed magnificently; however, some troubling observations have been reported. When the JWST took its first look at the sky, it seemed to have found galaxies...
The superficially Earthlike appearance of Titan, as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope, is belied by its cold and inhospitable weirdness. Titan is a strange world — a little bit Earthlike, if land were made of water ice, rivers and seas were filled with liquid methane and other hydrocarbons, and the atmosphere were thick and hazy, dotted with methane clouds. — Read the rest
A newly published catalog reveals 2,200 new exoplanet candidates, found in data captured by TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope embarks on a cosmic treasure hunt for small belt asteroids. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope embarks on a cosmic treasure hunt, scanning the vast expanse to capture the trails of small asteroids that dart through space.
Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all 10 mirrors for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests show the newly aligned optics, collectively called the IOA (Imaging Optics Assembly), will direct light into Roman's science instruments extremely precisely. This will yield crisp images of space once the observatory launches.
The U.S. has accused Russia of "hiding something" after Moscow vetoed a United Nations (U.N.) Security Council resolution banning nuclear weapons in space.Russia blocked the council from adopting the resolution on Wednesday, months after the U.S. raised concerns that Russia may be developing a nuclear weapon designed to attack satellites in space. Russia has denied that such a weapon is in development.The resolution, which was drafted by the U.S. and Japan, reaffirmed the 1967 Outer Space Treaty...
Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."
The Hubble Space Telescope has paused operations because of a mechanical issue. One of its gyroscopes, which stabilizes the craft, has been sending back faulty readings.
Ice Seguerra pulled off a trending surprise for his former onscreen father, Vic Sotto, by putting on a doll-like costume in yesterday's episode of "Eat Bulaga."
The BIG3's $10M offer dwarfs the WNBA contract Clark signed.
The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on the early Earth, eventually leading to actual organisms.
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), has voiced his concerns about the diminishing privacy in physical spaces and emphasized the importance of online privacy. read more