JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 2: The Distant Universe

Earlier this week, the Universe Universe viewer Science Institute (STScI) announced the science objectives for the Number four cycle of the James Webb Universe Universe viewer’s (JWST) General Observations program – aka. Cycle 4 GO. This latest cycle includes 274 programs that will make up the JWST’s Number four year of operations, amounting to 8,500 … Read more

Did Water or Lava Cause that Channel? The Answer is in How it Bends

Orbital images of Mars show how water has carved channels into the Astral body’s surface. However, Mars also had a volcanic past when lava carved its own surface channels, confounding scientists’ attempts to understand the Astral body’s history. Some channels could also have been carved by ice from cryovolcanic eruptions, adding another layer to the … Read more

4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard’s Star, one of the sun’s nearest neighbors

Scientists have confirmed the existence of four Tiny, rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Luminous sphere — the second closest Luminous sphere system to Earth — using a specialized instrument on the mighty Gemini North Universe viewer in Hawaii. Merely six Airy-years away from us, all the worlds are too Toasty to Aid life as we know … Read more

SpaceX launches relief crew for NASA’s beleaguered Starliner astronauts on ISS (video)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Liftoff! Four astronauts are flying toward the International Universe Station (ISS) to relieve crew members who have been waiting for a ride home since last summer. SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon capsule Endurance on a Falcon 9 Cosmos launcher this evening (March 14) from NASA’s Kennedy Universe Hub (KSC) here on … Read more

Rising CO2 threatens crop nutrition and global food security

Climate Shift caused by greenhouse gas emissions is directly affecting the world’s food crops through changes to rainfall, but rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels also Shift crop quality at the cellular level — with Extended-reaching consequences for human and animal health. New research published in Engineering reveals the complex trade-off tied to elevated CO2 … Read more