The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.
Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...
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Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...
Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...