Astronomers using NASA’s state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery of GJ 1214 b, a planet unlike any we've seen before.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is tested in a giant ... As it happens, there’s a rocky planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf ...

The Webb Space Telescope mission is threatened—not by anything in the desolate outskirts of the Sun, but by potential budget cuts. Webb is performing better than expected, astronomers say ...

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In her 2019 book The Sonic Episteme, philosopher Robin James postulates the shift from modernity’s visual regime to a neoliberal 21st-century knowledge economy increasingly shaped by sound and ...

Astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of the galaxy over the past ten years. The final image captures the glow of nearly 200 million stars ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032. By Robin George Andrews Scientists studying samples that NASA ...

"We did a lot of R&B," Brown explains. "There's a lot of Sade, there's a little JoJo going on there. James knows every song. He was part of a band growing up in Oklahoma, and so, the dude has ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Pope Francis has decided that this year, we will be discussing not any series of topics—clericalism women’s ordination to the diaconate, or ministry to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics—but synodality ...