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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The headline claim, in the form it usually arrives, is that Saturn’s rings are around 400 million years old. The actual finding, published by Sascha Kempf and colleagues in Science Advances in May ...

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 ...

In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags, rolled to a stop, and started doing what it was sent to do. NASA’s engineers had given it ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March 2026 argues that the rate of global warming has risen sharply. The paper, by Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for ...