Webb telescope sees world that could reek of burnt matches and rotten eggs
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
NASA James Webb Telescope Revelations Challenge Theory of Gravity
If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...
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NASA’s Roman Telescope gets new tech to hunt for alien worlds around distant suns
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
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Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...
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A window into the universe, NASA’s ‘hyperwall’ advances data visualization at a massive scale
Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. Taken from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the display is a composite of 800,000 frames, showing ...
Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...
8 stunning images of Nebula shared by NASA
Nebulae exist in various types, including emission, reflection, and dark nebulae. The Orion Nebula is among the most famous and easily visible examples. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured ...
The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega’s Missing Planets
Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...
Explore the Cosmos: 7 Jaw-dropping images of galaxies captured by NASA
The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.
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NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft finds 'danger zones' around stars
Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.