The Kepler and James Webb space telescopes are on the chopping block, budget-wise. Probably only because too few people are aware of how much they’ve done for the human understanding of the universe we live in.
Coronal Mass Ejections are massive disturbances on the Sun’s surface, ejecting plasma out into the solar system. Sure, they look pretty but what are the dangers of being on the receiving end of a CME?
A new planet’s been discovered. Creatively named Kepler-22b, read on to find out how something like this gets even gets named and what it means for human civilization. Or… something.
NASA just launched it’s latest mars rover, called the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity. It’s the size of a small car and will arrive in August. How cool is that?
Aweome photos of the aurora borealis have been making their rounds lately on the internet. But the magnetic field around Earth is good for more than just putting on an awesome light show.
