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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has studied the puzzling Herbig-Haro object 49/50, created by a nearby forming star. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI On the back end of a telescope, looks can be ...

The best telescopes allow you to observe the night sky in more detail. The best telescopes unlock the wonders of the night sky right from your backyard and beyond. Bring the Moon and planets into ...

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question. Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a ...

The duo launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 p.m. EST (0310 March 12 GMT). There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because ...

NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving ...

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for February's fantastic planetary parade. Want to focus your stargazing on our cosmic neighbors ...

Credit: J. Beltrán/ESO Work began on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) more than a decade ago, and it's still about three years away from its ribbon-cutting ceremony. But if scientists are ...