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Webb closes in on destination with critical mirror alignment on tap Thirty days outbound from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope will slip into its parking orbit a million miles away Monday, an ideal spot to scan the heavens in search of faint infrared light from the first generation of stars and galaxies.
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Should we be wearing masks outside again? Given how contagious the omicron variant is, we wondered whether we should all still be wearing masks outdoors. We talk to some experts for advice. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's well established that if you're outdoors, your chances of being infected with ...
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Webb space telescope nears its destination almost a million miles from Earth, ready for critical mirror alignment Once aligned and its instruments calibrated, Webb will be 100 times more powerful than Hubble, NASA says — so sensitive to infrared light that it could detect the faint heat of a bumble bee as far away as the moon.
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NASA's James Webb telescope is about to arrive at an exceptional point in space The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is approaching its new home. On January 24, it will arrive at a point in space that scientists call Lagrange point 2, or L2. This is the technical name for a delicate gravitational tipping point.
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Can nonhuman animals drive other animals to extinction? Some animals are capable of interspecies decimation if humans put them in the wrong place and they become invasive — species that cause ecological or economic damage to their non-native environment. For example, Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) from ...
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Ruins of bustling Roman town discovered in UK Archaeologists have uncovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of an Iron Age village that grew into a bustling ancient Roman trading town — an archaeological gem with more than 300 Roman coins, glass vessels and water wells — in what is now ...
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Scientists detect something really unexpected beneath Saturn's 'Death Star' moon "When you look at Enceladus and Europa, there's clearly an engine in these moons that is running," Alyssa Rhoden, a planetary scientist who researches ocean worlds, told Mashable. "When you look at Mimas it's the opposite — it can't possibly be an ocean ...
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Coronavirus FAQ: What's the risk of catching omicron outdoors? (Of course, football games have been postponed this season because of COVID outbreaks, but the study's authors believe that players were more likely spreading it in locker rooms and other shared indoor spaces.) Outdoor ...
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Here's what would really happen if an asteroid was going to hit Earth Fast points out that it's important for us to locate asteroids before they do pose a threat, because an asteroid impact would be a preventable natural disaster. NASA has a department called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office which ...
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NASA Is Going To Chase An Asteroid Using A Solar Sail NASA will use a miniaturized spacecraft pulled by a sail to chase a bus-sized asteroid. This mission combines two new NASA passions, space sails and asteroids. Space sails are particularly interesting for NASA because they can propel a spacecraft ...
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