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And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...
The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...
Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...
Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...
How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...
Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.
Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...
The telescope features an 8.4-meter primary mirror with a three-mirror design that provides an exceptionally wide 3.5-degree field of view, seven times the area of the full moon. At its core is ...