Jupiter and Saturn
NASA’s mission to an ice-covered moon will carry a message between water worlds
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, bound for Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in October 2024, will carry a laser-etched message celebrating humanity’s connection with water. The message is a tribute to previous NASA missions that released similar messages. As president of Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, International, I helped design the message on Clipper along with two … Read more
James Webb Space Telescope makes rare detection of 2 exoplanets orbiting dead stars
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already proven itself adept at peering into the past by imaging objects at enormous distances, but a new breakthrough may have made the powerful instrument behave almost like a scientific crystal ball behaves, staring into Earth’s distant future. solar system. The JWST carried out its prediction when it … Read more