On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

New optical technologies have revolutionized astronomy, from the invention of the telescope 400 years ago to more recent developments of adaptive optics and segmented mirrors. The next disruptive ...

The ELT is by trade an optical/infrared telescope. It will comprise a total of five mirrors and their required optics, plus a series of instruments needed to make sense of the light captured ...

According to an article published by NASA on Wednesday, March 26, the Webb telescope “captured bright auroral activity on Neptune” for the very first time in June 2023. Despite “successful ...

CARLISLE - Drawn to the door by noises outside, Wendy Gerberich Kenney, then a pregnant 19-year-old, remembered seeing a fatal shootout unfold from her New Cumberland apartment in a state of shock.

Firstly, the rover detected the largest organic compounds ever found on the planet and secondly, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... of a rock sample called Cumberland, the rover has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its Canadian and European space agency counterparts, has finally captured clear images of these magnificent Neptunian light shows.

But such collisions are so rare that enormous volumes of target material are needed to create a neutrino telescope. What’s more, astronomers need to place these instruments deep underground or ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks ...