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The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...
More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...
The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...
This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...
The Vera C. Rubin observatory will host a “first look” event at 11 a.m. ET on Monday, June 23. You can watch it live right ...
A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...
Search the cosmos any time of day, and there’s no need to charge or plug in the telescope; it relies only on your ...