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Space

25 Years Later, This Iconic NASA Telescope Lost Critical Funding To Keep It Alive

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

46 Years Later, This Iconic Pair Of NASA Spacecraft Are Still Sending Signals Home

ByKiona Smith
Science

NASA: We Didn't Change Your Zodiac Sign, Astrology Isn't Real

ByJames Grebey
space

Was Homer Poetically Describing A Solar Eclipse? 3 Ancient Eclipses That May Have Changed Humanity Forever

ByKiona Smith
Science

KONA BLUE: Top-Secret Government Program To Investigate “Human Consciousness Anomalies” Doesn’t Exist, New Report Says

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

The Complete Guide To Avoiding Scams And Buying the Right Solar Eclipse Glasses

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Look! This Gas-Rich Cloud Could Be Growing Massive Exoplanets

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

“Something doesn’t add up”: The Webb Telescope Identified Premature Supermassive Back Holes

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Uncovered The Oldest ‘Nearly Dead’ Galaxy Astronomers Have Ever Seen

ByKiona Smith
Space

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spotted A Mysterious Phenomenon Buried Beneath Jupiter’s Atmosphere

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Who Owns the Moon? The Race For Lunar Real Estate Is An Impending Ethical Nightmare

ByKiona Smith
Space

Look! Mars Express Orbiter Took Photos Of Mars That Look Straight From Dune

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa May Be Missing a Key Ingredient for Life

ByKiona Smith
Science

This Exoplanet 580 Light-Years From Earth Might Have Seasons Just Like Ours

ByThe Conversation and Gongjie Li
Space

Hubble Spots A Community Of Extremely Old Stars That Have Aced Longevity

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

ALMA Telescope Detects “At Least 3 Times” More Water Than On Earth In A Nearby Protoplanetary Disk

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

The Webb Telescope Just Uncovered A Possible Explanation for Why Giant Gaseous Planets Often Fail

ByKiona Smith
Space

Look: Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus Moon Lander Sent Back What Could Be Its Final Photo

ByKiona Smith
space

Dwarf Galaxies Made the Early Universe Visible

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Discover HD 63433d, An Alternate Earth with Seas of Lava

ByKiona Smith
Space

DART Impact Redirect And Reshaped The Dimorphos Asteroid

ByKiona Smith
Space

46 Years Ago, a Rare Alignment of Our Planets Allowed For An Iconic Space Mission

ByKiona Smith
Space

‘Odysseus’ Just Performed First American Moon Landing Since Apollo

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

The Webb Telescope Just Solved a 37-Year-Old Space Explosion Mystery

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Uncanny Donut-Shaped Region Beyond Neptune Could Be ‘Billions of Miles’ Larger Than We Thought

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space

A Backbone Holding Up the Milky Way Is Bending — Astronomers Don't Know Why

ByKiona Smith
Science

65 years ago, a street dog paved the way for human spaceflight — with a grim outcome

ByAllie Hutchison
invisible monsters

Scientists debate the existence of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

ByPassant Rabie
Science

New research finds a disturbing pattern of discrimination at the highest levels of STEM

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
space

These Spiral Dust Arms May Hold the Secret to Building Giant Planets

ByKiona Smith
Opinion

We Need to Get Back to the Moon

ByPhil Plait
Space Science

How the Webb Telescope is Rewriting What We Know About the Early Universe, One Galaxy at a Time

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Space Time

70 years ago, the world united for a monumental scientific project — and kicked off the Space Race

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Webb Watch

We finally know when the Webb Telescope's first color images will arrive — here's what to expect

ByKiona Smith
The Inverse Awards 2022

Inside NASA's monumental effort to deliver the first Webb Telescope images

ByJon Kelvey
UFO

Astrophysicists may be on the brink of a massive alien breakthrough

ByKiona Smith
Dream Teams

How a team of scientists risked everything to capture the most cosmic snapshot of the decade

ByGrace Browne
Science

45 years ago, NASA's first Space Shuttle only went five miles up — and changed spaceflight forever

ByAllie Hutchison
Reel Science

The best sci-fi disaster movie on HBO Max reveals a possible apocalypse

ByTara Yarlagadda
The Inverse Awards

Alien Invasion! The 11 Most Gripping Alien and UAP Events Of 2023

ByKiona Smith
Inverse Interview

The Webb Telescope is uniquely able to find potentially habitable worlds — here's why

ByClaire Cameron
Feature

The future of cosmology is 239,000 miles away — but closer than ever

ByPassant Rabie
Science

15 years ago, a spacecraft swung by Mercury to beat the Sun's gravity

ByAllie Hutchison
Space Rocks

Meteorite hunters: How amateur sleuths track down some of the oldest known pieces of the universe

ByJennifer Walter
Future Earth 2121

The future of Earth is 5 other planets

ByJohn Wenz
Science

50 years ago, one speech revolutionized the Space Age and took us to the Moon

ByAllie Hutchison
Young Innovators

Michelle Kunimoto boldly discovers where no one has before

ByMaddie Bender
clean up, aisle 2

NASA thinks space junk will hit the James Webb Space Telescope — but it's ok

ByClaire Cameron
Dream Teams

The incredible story of how teaming up helped astronomers accomplish the impossible

ByGrace Browne
Hubble

Stunning images reveal stellar nurseries

ByJoAnna Wendel