The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And ...
Research indicates that the James Webb Space Telescope could help confirm the presence of life-supporting atmospheres on exoplanets in the "Goldilocks zone," enhancing the likelihood of discovering ...
In 1963, the Arecibo Observatory became operational on the island of Puerto Rico. Measuring 305 meters (~1000 ft) in diameter ...
On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which holds the largest digital camera in the world, is ...
The UK Astronomy Technology Centre has been tasked with developing the first scientific apparatus for the Extremely Large ...
As we know, outer space is filled with astounding visual spectacles, and in a recent development the Hubble Telescope has ...
“I’m in orbit with NASA’s Large Space Telescope, the LST. Here, well above the haze of our atmosphere, astronomers will get a ...
NRL's Compact Coronagraph on NOAA's GOES-19 spacecraft has started capturing crucial images of the Sun's atmosphere and solar phenomena, aiding in the prediction of space weather effects on Earth. The ...
Forecasters will soon be able to use the instrument, a coronagraph, to better monitor the effects of solar storms.
Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from ...