Deciphering Alien Skies: How the James Webb Space Telescope Reads the Chemistry of Distant Worlds
For decades, the search for extrasolar planets focused entirely on detection: confirming that distant pinpricks of light were periodically dimmed…
Twin Solar Eruptions Threaten Earth with Successive “Train” of Plasma Storms
Space weather forecasters are closely tracking a pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) hurtling across the inner solar system toward…
How the Earth Will End
We’re used to hearing that Earth has roughly 5 billion years left before the Sun expands into a red giant…
Forecasting the Sun’s Fury: How NOAA Monitors Space Weather Threats
When most people check the daily forecast, they look for rain, snow, or rising temperatures. But 93 million miles away,…
How One Company is Saving Humanity
Low Earth orbit is more crowded than ever, with tens of thousands of objects circling the planet at breakneck speeds.…