A particulate-filled whirlwind swept right over the Perseverance rover, providing some fortuitous scientific data.
The ethereal Southern Ring Nebula may have emerged from a dance party gone wrong between stars.
The NEO Surveyor project has cleared a NASA review, but the space telescope will cost upwards of $1.2 billion to build and not launch until 2028.
The intercontinental Square Kilometer Array will comprise thousands of dishes to image vast swathes of the sky.
The moon's clouds and a bit of its surface are visible in new views from the space-based observatory.
The damaged astronomy site faces an uncertain future.
A recently launched prototype satellite is proving to be a bright nuisance for astronomers, but it could soon be joined by 100 more satellites just like it.
The jet is from the most distant tidal disruption event yet observed.
The merging galaxies, heavily distorted by gravity, have formed an unusual celestial ring.
WASP-39b is a hot Saturn with some nasty chemicals in its skies.
The analysis quells fears that the telescope will suffer frequent micrometeoroid hits.
A deeper look through a massive cluster has turned up two galaxies that formed just after the cosmic dawn.
The space observatory’s most recent image shows a star’s preamble in the nearby universe.
Images from the Mars Express orbiter suggest that clouds form similarly on both planets, despite their very different atmospheres.
We have a much more interesting view of dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, thanks to Webb’s imaging powers.
The Webb team had to pause observations in the medium-resolution spectroscopy mode after a problem arose in late August.
The dense, dormant object is hiding in plain sight.
These are the IXPE mission’s first observations of a mass-accreting black hole.
A future mission will pick up these rock cores and bring them to Earth, where scientists will search them for signs of ancient life.
The iconic arms of the Eagle Nebula are zombie-skin blue in this view from the MIRI tool.
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