Lisa Kaltenegger Credit: Ryan Young/Cornell University Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor in the Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Sagan Medal
Lisa Kaltenegger Credit: Ryan Young/Cornell University Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor in the Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the 2025 Carl Sagan Medal
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sun-like star to Earth. It’s located
WASHINGTON — United Launch Alliance is now forecasting to launch about 10 missions in 2025, a drop of more than half compared to what the company was projecting last year.
After months of work in the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) challenge, more than 100 students from 12 universities across the United States traveled to NASA’s Johnson
(NewsNation) — The Harvard scientist raising concerns about incoming comet 3I/ATLAS — namely, that it could be some kind of alien probe sent to study our solar system — is
Comparison of K2 with other comets. In the upper panel, the comet is compared with C/2009 P1, C/1999 T1, and C/2013 R1, which show the closest relative abundance proportions. In
The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Paranal Observatory lies under some of the darkest and clearest skies in the world, in Chile’s Atacama Desert. But now, light pollution from a new
The peak temperature achieved by all tracer particles in simulations of a 1 km diameter comet impacting at 10 km s−1 (left) and 40 km s−1 (right) in a provenance
Senegal has officially joined the Artemis Accords, becoming the 56th nation and the fourth African country to commit to a shared vision for peaceful and transparent space exploration. The signing
Terrestrial planet with thin atmosphere — NASA Ionizing radiation is known to have a destructive effect on biology by causing damage to the DNA, cells, and production of Reactive Oxygen






