The James Webb Space Telescope cost roughly $10 billion, launched on Christmas Day 2021, and has produced science that, according to Space Telescope Science Institute project scientist Macarena Garcia ...
A representative Antarctic ice shelf photographed by Francesco Ungaro via Pexels. It is not Lake Vostok or the inland ice above it; the subglacial lake is invisible from the surface. At Russia’s ...
The starburst etched into the lower-left corner of Voyager’s Golden Record cover is neither decoration nor a picture of an explosion. Fourteen of its rays extend from the Solar System towards pulsars, ...
Thousands of kilometres beneath the cloud tops of Neptune and Uranus, the pressure is thought to do something extraordinary to carbon. It crushes it into diamond. Those diamonds, denser than the ...
Sitting on a crowded island with no natural freshwater sources of your own is an uncomfortable position for a country to be in. There are no large rivers or natural lakes, and limited land to catch ...
NASA illustration showing a neutron star, about 20 kilometres across, compared with Manhattan Island. Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. A neutron star is one of the few objects in astronomy ...
Voyager 1, the first human-made object to cross into interstellar space, carries a gold-plated copper phonograph record holding music, spoken greetings, and the sounds of Earth. The popular ...
Visualization of the Moon's far side using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio / Ernie Wright. The phrase “dark side of the Moon” is one of those ...
Lay every continent and island on the planet side by side, and the total land area comes to roughly 149 million square kilometres. The Pacific Ocean, by most accounts, is larger than that. You could ...
Conceptual artwork of a distant planet. Image by Rodolfo Boscan via Pexels. This is a representative illustration, not an observed image or scientific reconstruction of LHS 1140 b. A planet 48 ...
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate platform near what is now Chicxulub, on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It opened a ...
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