On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system ...
Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...
After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
(if going by patent filings) of the telescope to finally see Neptune's auroras, and it's thanks to NASA's James Webb Space ...
Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...