New James Webb Space Telescope observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b reveal that the hot gas giant is tidally locked, ...
In 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ... as seen in spectacular images taken by ...
Recently, researchers have gotten creative and found a way to use Hubble data to detect previously unknown asteroids that are mostly located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The treasure hunt required perusing 37,000 Hubble images spanning 19 years. The payoff was finding 1,701 asteroid trails, with 1,031 of the asteroids previously uncatalogued. About 400 of these ...
I'm an award-winning journalist writing about the night sky & eclipses NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been hit by a micrometeoroid, which has damaged one of the 18 beryllium-gold ...
More than 27,000 asteroids in our solar system had been overlooked in existing telescope images — but thanks to a new ...
This image shows two views of the same spiral galaxy, called IC 5332, as seen by two NASA observatories – the James Webb Space Telescope’s observations appear at the top left and the Hubble ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that the Hubble Space Telescope's keen eye was right all along, erasing any lingering doubt about Hubble's measurements. One of the ...
Shortly after announcing that those images would release in July, though, dire news was shared – a micrometeoroid had hit ...
Billed as the successor to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, which launched into orbit in 1990, Webb was designed to peer deeper into space than ever before, with powerful instruments that can ...
Apr. 30, 2024 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula.