Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional infrared space observatory, and the James Webb Space ...

Who ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world that really puts the "hot" ...

A new compact X-ray telescope may finally give scientists the first complete map of the Moon’s elemental composition, ...

This is Olaf Scholten, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has observed radio wave-emissions originating from a commercial airliner, most likely caused by the ...

James Webb telescope in outer space on orbit of Earth - Dima Zel/Shutterstock The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most advanced space telescope ever constructed and one of the coolest pieces ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved an unprecedented feat: capturing the sharpest image ever recorded of a distant star’s disk—without using a telescope array. The breakthrough was made possible by a novel ...

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Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...

Scientists have been able to peer into Uranus’ upper atmosphere for the first time thanks to the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - and have documented the icy giant’s own version of the ...

Back in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on the "first space telescope built specifically to study, in detail, starlight filtered through exoplanet atmospheres." Now, five ...