James webb space telescope finds a potential signature of life

In early April, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope completed its third observing programme, a nine-month-long roster of research proposed by astronomers around the world. Among the many groundbreaking

Mars once had vast oceans on its surface. Then its magnetic field weakened, its atmosphere thinned, and its water vanished. But the numbers don’t add up. For the Red Planet to have transformed from a

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Where did life on Earth begin? That sounds like a relatively straightforward question. Surely life on Earth began… well, on Earth, right? We know this planet had the right conditions for life to arise

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

New data suggests that dark energy’s pulling power is changing Dark energy’s pull could be weakening over time, according to new results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaborat