Experimental Musings

Engineers who measured the shape of James Webb Space Telescope's mirror segments incorporated the same ideas into a system ophthalmologists use to measure the shape of their patient’s eyes.

Our solar system is old. It's 4.5 billion years old, in fact. But that's not what has astronomers excited recently. A new discovery of two young asteroids is the topic of the week taking up space in the brains of scientists!

There's a lot of news about people going up in space lately. And that involved some new space travel records.

The science community had some great news to start off this week: a historic first-ever powered and controlled flight on another planet! As far as mission objectives go, Ingenuity has already passed with flying colors. 

Just for a few moments, let’s go far far away to the farthest observed thing in our solar system, a whopping 132 times further from the sun than you are right now.