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The most powerful telescope in history. The James Webb Space Telescope's "jewel-filled" photos are stunning. FBI says it's ...
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...
A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
NASA, along with the European Space Agency (ESA) and several ground-based observatories, has detected some of the most ... Space Telescope, planned to launch by 2027, is designed to detect this kind ...
Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...
NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective ...
The most surprising thing that directly impacted the mission is the rugged nature of Bennu’s surface. We really got that wrong. We spent a lot of time analyzing data from the Arecibo Observatory in ...
The enhanced imaging capabilities of the coronal adaptive optics system facilitate the study of small-scale phenomena like ...
NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have observed black holes causing the most powerful space explosions ever recorded, revealing previously hidden black holes.
Astronomers have discovered the most distant mini-halo ever seen—10 billion light-years away—revealing that galaxy clusters ...