Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have made the surprising discovery of methane emissions from a brown dwarf, or “failed star.” The finding suggests that the brown dwarf has auroras and may even be orbited by an undiscovered exomoon, the researchers said. The JWST brown dwarf discovery is surprising because these cold, isolated… Read More »
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will head to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in October 2024, will carry a laser-etched message celebrating humanity’s connection to water. The message pays homage to past NASA missions that carried similar messages. As president of Extraterrestrial Messaging Intelligence, or METI International, I helped design the messaging in Clipper along with… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already proven adept at peering into the past by imaging objects at great distances; But a new breakthrough may have seen the powerful instrument act almost like a scientific crystal ball, peering into Earth’s distant future. Solar system. JWST made its prediction possible by enabling the rare direct… Read More »