April's new moon darkens the skies, making it the perfect time to pick up one of the best telescopes for deep space. As stunning as our own solar system can be, what if you want to gaze a little ...

K2-18b, which is within our galaxy, the Milky Way, cannot be seen by any telescope as a discrete object. But it has a fortuitous orbit that crosses its parent star as seen from Earth. Such ...

A stunning cloud of gas and dust in space, called NGC 1514, has been captured in amazing detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. This cloud, known as a planetary nebula, was created by a star ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-US team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet’s atmosphere long considered to be “biosignatures” indicating extraterrestrial life ...

This is the strongest evidence yet there is possibly life out there,' but more data needed to confirm results, says Cambridge University professor NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

The masses under test are millions of kilometers apart. The inter-spacecraft laser interferometry telescope deliver laser efficiently from one spacecraft to another. It is an important component of ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain ...

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