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By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.
NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous ...
The year was 2021, when our Gear Editor, Feroz Khan, spoke to Professor Aaron Roodman about the world’s largest camera that ...
This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.
Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.
NASA released the sharpest image of the universe in 2022 through the James Webb Space Telescope. Behind this historic moment ...
With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.
The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), 31 million light-years away, showcases spiral arms, pink star-forming regions, and blue star ...
Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the same time it's shooting out radio waves.
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four Great Observatories continues to ...
It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's images weren't clear enough to discern the fuzzy object located at its tip — but JWST 's are. This side-by-side ...