James Webb Telescope spots a rare sight on an extraterrestrial body: clouds
For centuries astronomers have been curious about this moon of Saturn, and thanks to new telescopes like James Webb, we're ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope goes live with a stunning first picture, peering 13 billion years into the past
This is a momentous occasion.
Researchers have just found the biggest galaxy ever discovered — and it’s big alright
We don't really know why these ultra-big structures get so big -- but finding more of them could help us ...
Why do stars twinkle, or do they twinkle at all? For astronomers, this is important
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
Our most sophisticated radio telescope found over 500 radio signals in the sky in a year
There could be hundreds of such events, unnoticed, every day.
Uranus is leaking radiation, researchers say
Some headline formats never get old.
It will still take ten years, but the world’s largest telescope just got the thumbs up
This could help answer some of the biggest questions of the universe
Liquid telescope could help us see the very first stars
Mothballed on NASA's shelves were the plans to view stars 13 billion years in the past. Now, a group of ...
Europe’s most powerful solar telescope lets us see its surface and spots up close
Up close and per-Sun-al.
Comet NEOWISE Comes into Focus for a Close-up
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning close-up image of comet NEOWISE, which recently captured the public’s imagination becoming ...
How a broken cable almost destroyed a thousand-foot telescope
Weather-related phenomenons are taking a toll on the telescope
NASA plans to set a telescope on the far side of the Moon
It's part of a set of innovative projects funded by the space agency.
Focusing on Arrokoth promises to reveal the Kuiper Belt’s secrets
The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just ...
Astronomers capture the most detailed image of the sun
It looks like caramel corn. Yum!
New European exoplanet-hunting telescope launches into space
The ESA’s CHEOPS telescope has finally launched kick-starting the next phase in exoplanet investigations.
Saturn is now the planet with the most moons
If having most moons was a race, Saturn just took an unexpected lead.
NASA finally puts the James Webb telescope together
The James Webb spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2021, when it will become the world's most powerful space science ...
How fast is the universe expanding? We may need to recalculate
It's one of the fundamental universal features -- and we're still struggling to understand it.
Why the SpaceX satellite fleet could spell major headaches for astronomers
It's an unexpected side effect of a useful plan.
Every point of light in this photo is a galaxy
Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?